Super Size Me (Article Comparison)

The Documentary on Super Size Me truly opened my eyes to various different things and aspects of food that I never realized. It caused me to be more alert of what I am eating, what it is doing to my body, and how it will affect me in the future. After watching the documentary, every time I would eat something, I’d examine it first, to see what it might do to my body. This documentary truly opened me to the reality of fast food restaurants. Both these articles, the New York Times review, and the TCS Daily review had different views towards this documentary.

To start with, the New York Times review, basically agreed with the documentary by Morgan Spurlock. This article also emphasizes on how dangerous eating fast foods is and compares it to tobacco. This article basically summarizes the whole documentary, and focuses on the conclusion of the documentary, and how one can relate to this documentary in real life. The main conclusion that the article wants to make and urge is to “kill McDonald's before McDonald's kills us”; where McDonald’s can be applied to most fast food restaurants. Although, our world today is dependant on this quick and easy way of food service, this article is willing to re-emphasize the points made by Spurlock, and “is certainly worth the loss of your appetite”.

Furthermore, the other article by, TSC, titled A Supersized Distortion, has a completely different view point as compared to both Spurlock and the New York Times article. This article, criticizes Spurlock to a great extent, and starts off by saying that he proved that eating makes you fat, rather than only fast foods. The article also talks about how the movie isn’t original and applicable at all. This is because the article says that no one would eat so much McDonald’s, which is why it doesn’t really apply to most people who eat at fast food places. The article also says that Spurlock blames “McDonald's for his own foray into gluttony”, meaning he blames McDonalds for his bad eating habits. Then the article continues stating various different relevant examples, relating to weight loss.

In conclusion, both of these articles were two different, opposite point of views to the documentary by Morgan Spurlock, Super Size Me. The article from New York Times had a view, which agreed with Spurlock’s documentary, and view. This article was more general and talked about the cons of eating fast food. On the other hand, the TSC article was extremely contrastive, and criticized Spurlock’s masterpiece immensely. After reading both articles, and watching the movie, I definitely believe that I used to have a view similar to the one given by the TSC article, and ignored all the cons of eating fast food and unhealthy. However, watching this documentary and reading the article by New York Times has really waken me up, and now I am more aware of my food; and know that I should consider other options other than fast food.