Super Size Me is about a director called Morgan Spurlock who takes on the task to have McDonalds for 30 days to take a look at the effects of eating fast food.
How the film starts is by pre school children all singing the pizza hut song, instantly showing that children are a important role in this film. The narrative is from Morgan himself, he speaks clearly, giving out facts and explaining the story. At the beginning, statistics are shown and Morgan explains them clearly, during this, you get the sense of character he is. Then it goes through the eyes of a hand held camera, following Morgan around and him talking to the camera. He at the start of the task is very excited and ready to do it, after day three he was positive he could do the task. However, his character changes as he becomes depressed through the days and gets mild mood swings because of the food. He even becomes obsessed of the food, which helps overcome the depression. In some interviews, it goes down to a personal level when it comes to his girl friend talking about their sex life, this gives the narrative through her eyes and her opinion, not the forget the three doctors he had visited for blood tests and weight, they all were surprised by the results over a couple of weeks and wanted to him stop.
The editing is slick and quick, showing paintings that show people's views on the fast food propaganda when there is a small break. Music is played throughout the film, having upbeat tune, nothing too cinematic, just a clear view of whats going on. During the fact scenes though, strong editing is used for the bar charts and animations, giving a clear view of the results.
Moreover, they have interviews with local people and kids to show the effects of fast food, for example, they asked people what a calorie was and a majority of them didn't know what it was. Another was they interviewed children and showed them pictures of iconic idols such as the presidents of america, a number of children didn't know who these people were but knew the characters of McDonalds characters on Television straight away, not even a hesitation.
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