Critical Analysis Of Eating Mcdonalds

Director Morgan Spurlock, created a documentary to provide evidence that eating McDonalds for thirty days straight is enormously unhealthy. He was experimenting with a man named Alex and using him as the guinea pig . He was to eat only McDonald's for thirty days straight, three meals a day for breakfast, lunch and dinner. If he was asked by the McDonald’s worker if he would like the meal super-sized, he must say yes.

Spurlock who is the protagonist presented McDonalds as the antagonist who are worldwide multi-national business, which are to blame for the obesity in America. In 2002 two young American girls got fed up with being overweight and did what was best ‘sued the bastards’ blaming McDonalds for their obesity and illnesses (Spurlock,

The ideas, customs of McDonalds, and social behaviour throughout the films is accepted by the team even though they know how harmful the food can be. The advertisement is of a clown named Ronald McDonald which is an excuse for children to get excited over to go eat unhealthy food. Another reason children want to go to McDonalds is for a ‘Happy Meal’ which only comes from McDonalds, it is special because it comes with a surprise toy. The social language used expresses Spurlocks concern about the consumption of McDonald meals. For instance when Alex is so angry, and over eating McDonalds that he says the F*** bomb and uses informal language to explicate the distress he is going through. The Super Size at McDonalds at the time only was in America which also is an example of cultural language. People of America were convinced to go for the Super Size meal as it was only just five cents to a dollar more so why wouldn’t they not get all that extra food for just one more dollar? Lisa Young who is a professor of nutrition explains that the original size which is now a small has 200 calories compared to the super size which has over 600 calories. They say ‘super size meal’ to persuade and influence buyers and