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“Super Size Me”
It seems familiar now, but when Morgan Spurlock first set out to prove a fast-food-only-diet could, in fact, be extremely harmful, it was a shocking sight: a man’s health falling apart on the big screen. Documenting how a month’s worth of McDonald’s food affected everything from his energy levels to his sex drive—at one point, Spurlock even vomits as his body rejects an overdose of the processed grub—there were those who claimed that the filmmaker was exaggerating the experience for theatrical effect. Maybe so, but the film nevertheless galvanized a whole generation to rethink that nightly burger run.
