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Supersize Me vs. Me and Mickey D  Supersize Me, a documentary by Morgan Spurlock, undertakes the challenge himself of eating McDonald's for an entire month in hopes to shed light on the issue if obesity in America. During the experiment, Spurlock displayed many different side effects from his new diet including mood swings, weight gain, major changes to his blood pressure and sodium levels, the effects this had on others around him and many more. This supports Spurlock's message to the wider community of that he presents McDonald's to be extremely unhealthy and that it can be linked to obesity when eaten on an everyday basis. The validity of his experiment is proven by the interviews he has with random people on the streets in America about their average consumption and thoughts on Mcdonald's, research conducted on the average American diet which Spurlock follows and expert advice from medical professionals on the effects this is having on his body. To make the aud...

Nanook of the North- Robert J. Flaherty Robert J. Flaherty, born in Michigan America, presents a depiction of the Inuit Eskimos featuring Nanook and his family. I say depiction not biography because Flaherty's work isn't one that captured the Eskimo lifestyle in real life, but one that was planned and thought out by both parties involved. Needless to say, this is still a documentary about Nanook and his families daily adventures and the tasks they face throughout. A main critique of 'Nanook of the North' is that it romanticises  the Eskimo lifestyle through the use of non-diegetic sounds. I would  criticise  this and say that non-diegetic sounds are what make the Eskimo lifestyle effective in portraying this romanticised  version of the film. Mood music is used to create an image of Nanook at certain points in the film to make him seem like the loving, caring and providing father that men were supposed to be. This is seen when Nanook lifts the children out of the ...