Film Analysis: Supersize Me
Obesity is a national epidemic! Are Corporate business to blame?
Rucy Rusera questions documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock outlook at America’s food culture, and how he sheds a new light on what has become one of America’s biggest health crisis: Obesity.
‘Where does personal responsibility stop and corporate responsibility begin?’ Morgan Spurlock asks the question on everybody’s lips as waistlines expand and health declines. This leads moviegoers to supersize their responsibility of their poor decisions throughout Supersize Me, while Spurlock incorporates a variation of cinematic and persuasive techniques to ultimately lead us to blame corporate businesses. McDonalds prefer the chunky double profit over the wellbeing of their customers. Spurlock, focuses on McDonald's not just of their greasy web of lies but because McDonalds "represents all chain food’. Morgan Spurlock embarks on a 30-day strict McJourney fast food diet, to see the effects on his life. …show more content…
Robbins tells of the many serious health issues caused by ice cream in his family. Yet he has seen how the food advertisements enhance the effect of the obesity epidemic. Representative for GMA, Gene Grabowski admits in his interview that corporate businesses are part of the health crisis. Grabowski’s interview is one of the most essential supporting evidence of the corporate responsibility in the film. What CEO of one of the most powerful lobbyists in the United States confirms that they contribute to a health crisis? This demonstrates that even distributors of fast food products know that fast food contributes to the obesity epidemic, yet they continue to do so to make a profit. These interviewees are habituated to provide the audience fortifying evidence that Spurlock only grills one side of the
Rucy Rusera questions documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock outlook at America’s food culture, and how he sheds a new light on what has become one of America’s biggest health crisis: Obesity.
‘Where does personal responsibility stop and corporate responsibility begin?’ Morgan Spurlock asks the question on everybody’s lips as waistlines expand and health declines. This leads moviegoers to supersize their responsibility of their poor decisions throughout Supersize Me, while Spurlock incorporates a variation of cinematic and persuasive techniques to ultimately lead us to blame corporate businesses. McDonalds prefer the chunky double profit over the wellbeing of their customers. Spurlock, focuses on McDonald's not just of their greasy web of lies but because McDonalds "represents all chain food’. Morgan Spurlock embarks on a 30-day strict McJourney fast food diet, to see the effects on his life. …show more content…
Robbins tells of the many serious health issues caused by ice cream in his family. Yet he has seen how the food advertisements enhance the effect of the obesity epidemic. Representative for GMA, Gene Grabowski admits in his interview that corporate businesses are part of the health crisis. Grabowski’s interview is one of the most essential supporting evidence of the corporate responsibility in the film. What CEO of one of the most powerful lobbyists in the United States confirms that they contribute to a health crisis? This demonstrates that even distributors of fast food products know that fast food contributes to the obesity epidemic, yet they continue to do so to make a profit. These interviewees are habituated to provide the audience fortifying evidence that Spurlock only grills one side of the