Questions:
- What is Spurlok’s message about fast food?
- How does he try to prove his message’s validity?
- What does he do as a director to make you believe his message?
- What flaws do you see in his strategy?
Q1: His message is that by eating fast food you become addicted to it and it damages your health. Fast food is becoming the main meal for americans and so thats why there is a huge number of obese people in the US.
Q2: He tries to prove his message by starting a McDiet, which consists on eating fast food for an entire period of 30 days straight. He can only eat McDonalds and he mus have 3 meals a day. If the restaurant asks Spurlock if he wants his meal supersize, he has to say yes. He also has to try everything in the menu at least once.
Q3: Firstly, he actually sticks to his McDiet which to many is really impressive. Secondly, he uses professional people to measure his process during the diet and he shows actual facts on the documentary. He also shoes the stories of people who have been 'addicted' to McDonalds and how have they been affected.
Q4: Some imperfections in the documentary are that it is a one-side documentary, it is based only on the point of view of McDonalds affecting obesity in America. The documentary is in response to a lawsuit done by two affected clients by McDonalds. Spurlock reduced his exercising during the diet. He also went from a vegetarian diet to the McDiet, this obviously had a greater impact. The supersize option is looked as if Spurlock is forced to take it, and so it only shows that point of view from McDonalds, however it is just an option and he didn't have to take it. Finally he didn't show the other healthier options from McDonalds, and when he did, he added mayonnaise and extra sauces. Off course, its his job to show it that way, but he wasn't honest about McDonalds, which i also consider it to be another flaw.
