Super Size Me

The movie that we are watching in class is Super Size Me. The main character, Morgan Spurlock, criticizes McDonalds for the main cause in making people fat. Now obviously, the worlds biggest fast food chain isn't "making" people fat but the way they are marketing all of their unhealthy food very much makes it seem like they are. Morgan gained about 25 pounds by the end of the 30 day period he embarked on. One point that we discussed in class was that, why do you think the movie is mainly focusing on taking mini clips of extremely obese people? My view on this question is that, the main reason why the movie was made was to show how fast food chains are causing us Americas to gain pounds after pounds of unhealthy fat. So, when Morgan goes on showing his audience the obese people eating the junk food, it is not mock or make fun of them, but rather give us a reason to stay away from this packaged garbage.