Supersize Me

Running Head : Super Size Me Super Size Me

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In the film Supersize Me , film school dropout Morgan Spurlock seems to be arguing the obvious : fast food , such as McDonald 's fare , is bad for you . He attempts to do this in the most straightforward , albeit extreme manner possible which is to engorge himself on nothing but McDonald 's food for an entire month-long period . The majority of Super Size Me 's running time is devoted to documenting this process , interspersed with colorful anecdotes , running interviews

and various expeditions , all devoted to examining the cultural and social implications of fast food culture . The result is a successful argument against fast food culture one which holds companies accountable for the resulting culinary malaise plaguing America but without absolving consumers of their own personal responsibility

To a great extent , Super Size Me is like an upside down version of Fast Food Nation , a muckraking tome on the fast food industry by investigative journalist Eric Schlosser . Schlosser examined fast food from a top to bottom perspective - examining how fast food culture emerged from the automobile culture of Southern California , and how its successes have trickled down to have damaging political and economic effects on (among other things ) the lives of workers , the health of families , the resilience of the food supply . Spurlock , on the other hand , looks at fast food culture from the bottom up by implicitly suggesting that it is our (lack of ) personal responsibility that contributes to...