Supersize Me

I havn't seen a first-run movie in a major chain theatre since Return of the King back in December. Actually, there really are only two theatres that I go see movies at: the local second run theatre, and the wonderfully atmosphered Uptown downtown. This comes from The Uptown. Immensely entertaining, this documentary serves as one more indicator of the many things that are wrong with our society. The fast food conspiracy is pretty much directly tied into the sugar conspiracy and the wheat conspiracy. But this movie doesn't concern itself so much with corporate conspiracies as it does with the sheer destructive nature of what we subject ourselves to regularely. The corporations are just doing what they're built to do (for a greater run down on that see the excellent, if long and occasionally unfocused "The Corporation") and we're the ones buying into it.
There are four specific scenes that make this film definitely worth seeing: the McPuke, the girlfriend's description of what has happened to their relationship, the doctors' reactions to what is happening to his body, and the lobbyist saying "we're part of the problem."
Alot of people out there are discrediting this with "dirthy science" or as simply a vehicle for Spurlock to get a real job. I really just think he's a guy who had some means to an end, came up with a wacky idea for presenting something he feels strongly about, and went about doing something most of us wouldn't have the constitution to handle.

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