Super Size MeFeature length documentary

Choice of Film..Super Size Me

Genre: Documentary

Length: 100 minutes

An American documentary by Morgan Spurlock which was aired in Cinema’s on May 7th 2004. It follows 30 days of Spurlock (February 1st to March 2nd 2003) just eating McDonalds Food. His aim was to eat at a McDonalds three times in a day and he had to eat at least every item on the menu at least once. The Documentary shows the effect McDonalds gives on his physical and psychological well being. He experienced mood swings, sexual dysfunction and fat accumulation on his liver as a result of this. It then took him 14 months to lose the weight he gained which was 24 and a half lbs after eating 5000 kcal a day.

Interview with Morgan Spurlock..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXYLyA0_H8E

Youtube – Morgan Spurlock Q&A: “Super Size Me”

Themes in the film..

Health The effects of the fast food made Morgan very ill, it caused effect on his physical and psychological well being as well as causing sexual dysfunction and mood swings. He also gained fat accumulation in his liver.

Fast FoodIt documents the effect of eating too much fast foods and the amount of calories in them to do the damage it does.

Target audience in the film..

Super size me is targeted to 12 years and up, considering the classification is 12. This is merely because young children may not understand the concept of the film and also the bad language used and sexual references. However, these scenes could easily not have been used, but he chose to keep them, making it not suitable for children below the age of 12. It is also a sort of life lesson for these age groups of the effects of fast food, trying to teach them not too eat too much of it, potentially one a month.

Summary..

The reason behind his investigation was due to the increasing speed of obesity throughout the USA.

He wanted to do the documentary himself because he feared someone else may cheat

It was directed/produced/written by Morgan Spurlock

The agency was to show the result and effect of eating fast food too much.