“Everything of too much kills”
(A reaction paper for the movie “Supersize Me”)

The documentary film produced, directed and starred by Morgan Spurlock titled “Supersize Me” is made out of Spurlock’s curiosity about how the obesity cases in the U.S society spreads easily and continue to increase in rates. This situation of the U.S society is later declared “epidemic” by a Surgeon General, and fast food is the main reason why Americans easily get fat. And so, this muckraking documentary film aims to elaborate the cause of eating regularly at fast food chains and lets people know the effects of this not only in our body but also in our mind. Spurlock’s film will then follow a 30-day period wherein he will have a solely McDonald’s food diet – three meals per day and must agree with the supersize if asked – during the period and will limit his walk only with 3,000 steps in order to effectively document this kind of lifestyle’s severe and serious effect on his physical well-being. This will also explore the impact of fast food industry and how it encourages people to have a poor nutrition in exchange of having profits.

But before this documentation is executed, he first began the shooting by consulting and submitting himself to three doctors – a general practitioner, a gastroenterologist and a cardiologist – who tested him and announced that Morgan has an outstanding general health. These three will also monitor his body during the experimentation period. During the shooting, Morgan also visited some American schools, corporations and politics to see and observe their food culture.

During his first days as the test subject, he then found difficulty in adapting and adjusting to a new environment of eating. He did vomit when he can’t consume all of the foods he ordered. And along the weeks, he did gain much weight, approximately 11 kgs. , and even had mood