Critical Response #4: "30 Days of ___________"

In class, I introduced you to the "30 Days" documentary series created by Morgan Spurlock, who we all know from "Supersize Me."   Like Michael Moore, he's a bit of a provocateur bringing issues into the limelight through creative means.  Unlike Michael Moore, he has more fun doing it in a more objective way where results speak for themselves.

I gave you choices of four different episodes (30 Days of Minimum Wage, A Christan in a Muslim World, Straight Man in a Gay World, 30 Days Off the Grid) and unfailingly Straight Man in a Gay World usually gets voted to the top.

Now that you're familiar with the idea, I'd like you to come up with your own "30 Day" scenario and discuss the 5 W's (not strictly) in a thoughtful post.  Remember - if pictures/videos help, make use of them.  You can be as creative as you want to be, and it doesn't have to be a "fish out of water" scenario, or a "walk a mile in someone else's shoes" model.  It can be 30 days of living without something, or being forced to adopt something new.  It can be as personal or impersonal as you want it to be.

It's come to my attention that our last three critical responses have been tied to "education" in some way, and I had to ask myself whether this one does to.  I guess it does - 30 days of something to become educated about something.  I wanted to take a break from this unintended theme, but the more I think about it - isn't education at the core of debate?  The purpose of debate is to try and understand something by taking opposite views that we may or may not actually support personally.  30 Days does exactly that.  Here's another episode, and they are easy to find if you do a bit of hunting. Here's at lot of info at a website called Planet Green.  You can see more video to - some full episodes, some just trailers.


30 Days: Immigration from MacQuarrie-Byrne Films on Vimeo.