Supersize Me

Imari Palma

UNST

"Gospel According to..."

10/20/09

The director and writer of this documentary, Morgan Spurlock, had a very interesting and intense idea when he came up with this risky experiment of looking at obesity in America. This documentary has been nominated for an Oscar and has won other awards for its portrayal of its message and the emotion in evokes from the viewer.
I have seen this documentary multiple times already, in a health or physical fitness class. It's no wonder why I have though. Obesity is a growing epidemic in our nation. The US, the most lucky nation when it comes to availability of food, is abusing privileges and creating a deathly disaster.
I appreciate this man's courage to take on such a challenge. Every time I watch this film it makes me sick to my stomach and makes me never want to eat fast food again, which is what the film is suppose to do. Most people think, this experiment is unrealistic. Who would eat only fast food for thirty days straight? No one does that. Unfortunately, it is a sad truth that more Americans do it than one would think. I remember a lady saying, in the film, that everything is bigger in America. The size small drink, for example, is a large in France.
You could see the struggle this man was going through and how it was hurting his mind, body, his ability to focus, and even his home life. His girlfriend cared about him so much and wanted him so much to stop his insane experiment and detoxify his body of all the junk he was putting in it by eating McDonald's for every meal.
What is the gospel according to "Supersize Me?" I found a couple ways to tie in Christ, religion and the good news into this documentary. First, the man doing the experiment, represents Americans who overeat bad foods in America. What those people represent are bad choices. Bad choices represent sins in each and every one of our lives. Bad choices can be sex, drugs, you name it. It can also come in the form of food, anything that makes your mind unclear and desecrates the temple of God, our bodies. Everyday Satan tried to fill us with filth through whatever he can. He makes us feel low about ourselves, gives us a short lived high than a long term crash.
Finally, there is good news. The filth, "fatty foods," and sin Satan fills in our lives can be washed away with the blood of Jesus Christ. After the man's thirty days were up, his girlfriend made him a specific health plan to detoxify his body and cleanse him form the inside out. That is exactly what Jesus can do for us, cleanse us from all unrighteousness.