Live Life TeamI enjoyed this documentary, but didn’t get too excited over its premise that it is a lack of consciousness on the part of big corporations in the fast food industries that is making us sick.
This film starts with the premise that fast food will kill us. Its director, Morgan Spurlock, decides to go for one month eating exclusively fast food. He visits just about every fast food restaurant on the planet, ordering the most greasy, unhealthy food on the menu, and often “super sizing” his order. The film tracks his progress as he visits his doctor and has lab work done, showing that his various blood values are taking a nose dive and he is in imminent danger of dying.
In fact, Spurlock abandons this “experiment” before its projected 30-day course on the advice of his medical team. He is gaining weight way too rapidly and his health is taking a nosedive.
Of course, he tries to build the premise that it is the fault of the fast food providers that Americans are so unhealthy. His claim is that those providers know how unhealthy their food is, but still they encourage people, especially children, to eat it and that’s why our children today are more obese and unhealthy than they were in past decades. I don’t buy this premise at all.
Get past the director’s “opinions” and preaching about the dangers of the fast food industry, and form your own, and you have a very entertaining documentary film here.
