SUPER Size Me

In the 2004 film, Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock makes his debut as a director. Spurlock looks at obesity in the US, he zeros in on the cultural and business aspect of the fast-food industry. It is Spurlock's documentary of a month long binge of surviving only on McDonald's food for all three daily meals. I know the film is a documentary but usually directors document the behavior of others. I found it quite intriguing that Spurlock was willing to be the subject of the documentary, the guinea pig, if you will. Of course while watching the film the audience is disturbed by the sickening discoveries, but once the week has pasted by since seeing the film most of the nation's people would forget about the discoveries and fall back into the same old habits. There are those people, however, that completely do a 360 after watching this film and stop eating fast food. Some simply stop eating McDonald's. For me the film made me more aware of the damage I inflict on my body but really made no significant change in my lifestyle. I am an overweight american, but I don't eat McDonald's everyday. It isn't just the fast food that can get you . . . it's also the home cooked meals Abuelita makes with all the lard and salt and all the other things that make it taste so wonderful. In this film the health nut and the over weight couch potato lifestyles are prominent. The message is always the same, "Americans are getting lazy and fat!" So the message is sent because it is true that Americans are predominantly obese and inactive. I think on a spiritual note the film touches on the fact that our bodies are not meant to be in such horrible conditions. We were created as perfect beings. And of course the main idea is that our bodies are a temple in which the holy spirit resides and it should be maintained in a manner which pleases God. Till the next blog . . .