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Super
Size Me
(Directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock)
Morgan
Spurlock looks great but when he was filming this documentary he
was not a happy or a healthy bunny.
This
is the man who, for a month, ate nothing but MacDonalds meals in
order to test the nutritional quality of the fast food diet of the
average American.
At
the time of filming, when you ordered a meal at MacDonalds you may
or may not have been asked if you would like your meal "super-sized".
This
is an offer to up your portions to the maximum size. Spurlock based
his eating habits for the month on a list of self-enforced conditions,
one of which was to super size his meal if offered.
hedonistic
dream
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Mmm...another
Happy Meal
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So
while building up an hilarious satire - and an investigation of
how MacDonalds effectively renders its consumers addicted to their
products - Spurlock went from being an incredibly fit 32-year-old
to an exhausted, blotchy, depressed man with no sex drive and a
liver that was rapidly transmogrifying into foie gras.
Spurlock's
darkly comic journey begins as the fast food junkie's hedonistic
dream, but ends as a nightmare of epic proportions and a cautionary
tale warning against what happens when you give in to the perils
of a fast food diet.
Enough
said. This doc is a must-see.
PS:
MacDonalds no longer serve Supersized meals.
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