This was all in the title. The first thing I think about when I hear this is, food, more specifically, McDonald's!! This movie was a documentary following around one brave fellow on a 40 day quest of just McDonald's fast food! Yum? Morgan Spurlock, who not only starred in the movie, but directed it and wrote it, thought it would be good to test it out if fast food was really bad for you, and how bad could it really be. Before I even watched the movie, I had seen a preview and it really caught my eye. Anything that deals with statistics in America, especially about obesity and our health, so immediately I was hooked. Another thing that got me even before I watched it was that this guy was doing it to himself! He was not just taking a study of random people in america, he was trying it out for himself so we could really connect with it! Thinking about different people watching this movie, I could see many different reactions. The overweight population would probably be a little hungry afterwards (I know I was!) The skinny folk would be all, "I told ya so," and maybe go regurgitate what they had just ate. But overall I thought people would get the point and realize that maybe these big companies aren't trying to help us, maybe they just want to squeeze every dollar out of us, even if all of the world ends up to be 300 pounds. One of the things I thought to be most interesting was his girlfriend! I love how the movie portrayed the two extreme life styles, a strict vegan and a fast food binge eater. It really showed me that the life you lead and the values you have can have a major effect on your well being. Of course they did leave out the middle group, which most of us are, who don't eat fast food everyday, but don't eat like vegans either. So, what I would say to the middle group is moderation, something that I believe could have been stressed more in the movie.
This movie was made to shake up the average American citizen. Us, who get lazy and only want convenience, so we go and pay 6 bucks for food that was cooked in 5 minutes. We need to realize that our health can be a fragile thing and if we treat it disrespectfully, it can and will fail us. Lastly, this film points out that the body is the temple of God, something we have to treat right, to handle with care. God doesn't want us keeling over and dying from all this over processed, unnatural food. He wants us to take care of ourselves and in the end we would be nourishing our relationship with him.
P.S ON A SIDE NOTE...AS A PREVIOUS EMPLOYEE FOR MCDONALDS I MUST SAY THAT EATING THERE WILL DEFINITELY DO SOME HARM TO YOU! :D
wow u use to work at mcdonalds?
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