Posted on 06/16/2005 3:40:29 PM PDT by CorbyCard
Morgan Spurlock shows how difficult it is to pretend to be poor.
by Dan Gainor June 16, 2005
The new Morgan Spurlock documentary ’30 Days’ highlighted the fantasy of “reality” TV as Spurlock and his fiancé pretended to live life on minimum wage surrounded by cameras. Instead of teaching important lessons about saving, personal responsibility and the value of education, Spurlock relied on emotion to try to convince viewers the minimum was too low.
The June 15, 2005, program tried to duplicate the success of Spurlock’s Oscar-nominated attack on McDonald’s “Super Size Me,” where he stopped exercising and ate 5,000 calories of fast food every day. In this show, he tried to explain how you can “change your life” in just 30 days, in this case by acting poor.
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