Burger, fries and coke
"What if a TV reporter is asked to be the chief minister of a state for one day" - a fairy tale premise that turned out to be a blockbuster with all commercial ingredients.
"What if a filmmaker is asked to eat only McD's food for thirty days" - a simple premise that turned out to be one of the best ever made documentary in the recent history.
I had no strong emotions for fast food joints until I had to say good bye to all my homemade dishes. The moment I entered into the grad life I fell a trap to these cheesy entrees delivered from the fast foods. Be it a pizza, burger, sandwich, and whatsoever, I had them frequently for lunch or dinner (I won't include breakfast since I have cereals to makeup my calories for the day). The simple yet inevitable reason being "too busy to cook".
Morgan Spurlock's "Super Size Me", is definitely not a movie worth watching on a Friday night with your partymates. It is one such films that deserves to be viewed with complete involvement. Yes! take my word with complete involvement. It's about you, your health and your life. A few days back I saw it with my friend. What just started as a timefilling documentary movie, slowly swallowed us and showed us where we are going. We did three things after the 100 minutes of runtime.
a) We checked our weight.
b) We calculated our BMI (Body Mass Index) and
c) We decided to drop our plan of ordering pizza and started cooking our dinner.
A haunting experience of the reality that creeps into our physique on a daily basis. In a way I can call this as a depressing movie. It depresses our spirits towards the tasty fast foods. Me being a veggie, one may think complaining too much is a little overboard. But if you are a meat lover, you got to see this man to know what you lost and what you gained.
If the above paragraphs were my immediate reaction to this flick, the following came up after sometime. Why we are not bold enough to make such hard hitting documentaries that reflect our life, society, issues and also attempts to provide a solution. Some dare to make such films that end up being telecasted as newsreels or TV movies. A few play a safe game adding glossy elements to their voice and at the end of the day it is only the makeover that is getting sold and not the face. While another few succeed in telling whtever they want to point out, but they fail in something that never brings the solution to see the light of the day. Its time guys!
"What if a filmmaker is asked to eat only McD's food for thirty days" - a simple premise that turned out to be one of the best ever made documentary in the recent history.
I had no strong emotions for fast food joints until I had to say good bye to all my homemade dishes. The moment I entered into the grad life I fell a trap to these cheesy entrees delivered from the fast foods. Be it a pizza, burger, sandwich, and whatsoever, I had them frequently for lunch or dinner (I won't include breakfast since I have cereals to makeup my calories for the day). The simple yet inevitable reason being "too busy to cook".
Morgan Spurlock's "Super Size Me", is definitely not a movie worth watching on a Friday night with your partymates. It is one such films that deserves to be viewed with complete involvement. Yes! take my word with complete involvement. It's about you, your health and your life. A few days back I saw it with my friend. What just started as a timefilling documentary movie, slowly swallowed us and showed us where we are going. We did three things after the 100 minutes of runtime.
a) We checked our weight.
b) We calculated our BMI (Body Mass Index) and
c) We decided to drop our plan of ordering pizza and started cooking our dinner.
A haunting experience of the reality that creeps into our physique on a daily basis. In a way I can call this as a depressing movie. It depresses our spirits towards the tasty fast foods. Me being a veggie, one may think complaining too much is a little overboard. But if you are a meat lover, you got to see this man to know what you lost and what you gained.
If the above paragraphs were my immediate reaction to this flick, the following came up after sometime. Why we are not bold enough to make such hard hitting documentaries that reflect our life, society, issues and also attempts to provide a solution. Some dare to make such films that end up being telecasted as newsreels or TV movies. A few play a safe game adding glossy elements to their voice and at the end of the day it is only the makeover that is getting sold and not the face. While another few succeed in telling whtever they want to point out, but they fail in something that never brings the solution to see the light of the day. Its time guys!
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