Supersize Me Essay
Good morning/afternoon Grade 9 Students and Mr Cooper. The documentary that I will be analysing is Super-Size Me, directed by Morgan Spurlock who focuses this film on the fast-food franchise McDonalds, which the director must diet exclusively on for an entire month, three times a day to study the diet’s effect on his body. The purpose of Super-Size Me is to inform people about how significant it is to be more conscious of the foods they eat, and the possible consequences that they may risk undertaking. For that reason, the intended audience of this film is the western society we live in. The version of reality this documentary seeks to present to its viewers is that McDonalds, in the time the documentary was made, can make you relatively unhealthy
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An example of this is at the beginning of the film where Spurlock, the narrator, displays statistics for Obesity Trends Among US Adults for every year onwards from 1985 to 2002. When this information shows up in the documentary, a logo with the letters CDC emerge as an acronym for the company Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is in fact the leading national public health institute in the United States. Obviously, CDC is responsible for the data. Furthermore, this hints that information earlier and later in the movie is probably statistics contributed by CDC. It is clear that in this movie that Spurlock has chosen to only present reliable statistics that support his argument and completely leave out McDonalds’ perspective so the majority of the audience shares his opinion.
In conclusion, the documentary has been quite effective in situating viewers to believe the director’s version of reality, that eating at McDonalds too frequently can give you dangerously poor health. Morgan Spurlock has successfully created a documentary that positions the viewer to understand the true dangers of fast-food, and in particular McDonald’s. ‘Super-Size Me’ is very persuasive, as it effectively harnesses many documentary techniques. These techniques are very useful in influencing the perspective of the
An example of this is at the beginning of the film where Spurlock, the narrator, displays statistics for Obesity Trends Among US Adults for every year onwards from 1985 to 2002. When this information shows up in the documentary, a logo with the letters CDC emerge as an acronym for the company Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is in fact the leading national public health institute in the United States. Obviously, CDC is responsible for the data. Furthermore, this hints that information earlier and later in the movie is probably statistics contributed by CDC. It is clear that in this movie that Spurlock has chosen to only present reliable statistics that support his argument and completely leave out McDonalds’ perspective so the majority of the audience shares his opinion.
In conclusion, the documentary has been quite effective in situating viewers to believe the director’s version of reality, that eating at McDonalds too frequently can give you dangerously poor health. Morgan Spurlock has successfully created a documentary that positions the viewer to understand the true dangers of fast-food, and in particular McDonald’s. ‘Super-Size Me’ is very persuasive, as it effectively harnesses many documentary techniques. These techniques are very useful in influencing the perspective of the