The Tweedles

Monday, August 14, 2006

30 Days

This one was created by the same guy who did Super Size Me. I like his take on social experiments and how they invoke thought, unlike other proclaimed 'social experiments'- sorry Ashton, I don't think that yours is so socially experimental, more rating grabbing. Morgan Spurlock has chosen topics which I find to be interesting and relevant to what is important now. Recent shows were a man who believed that all of the illegal immigrants in the US should be sent back to where they came. So he was sent to live with one of these families for 30 days. He goes in expecting to hate them and all that they stand for and then he learns that they are people and that they came here to make their lives better, even though better is still living in poverty by American standards.
Other episodes include living on a minimum wage job, with children, living as a Muslim in the US, and living as a Christian by an atheist.
I would recommend this show, 'cause it really makes you think, and after some of the other shows I've listed, clearly thinking is good!

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