I watched 30 Days with Paul and I have to thank him for sharing Morgan Spurlock’s series with me. This episode saw a West Virginian Christian spend 30 days living and being observant as a Muslim.
To catch up on 30 Days proper, check out Paul’s article and review on PRADE on the previous two episodes and to learn more about the show.
Here’s the synopsis of the show:
From Academy Award nominee Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) comes 30 Days, a new series where Morgan will explore what life changing experiences are possible in 30 days. The concept for the show stemmed from the transformation Spurlock underwent when he ate nothing but fast food for 30 days in his movie Super Size Me. In this new FX series, Morgan Spurlock asks the question, what would happen if people spend 30 days living in someone else’s shoes? Find out the answer as he brings you 30 life changing days in one hour focusing on topics such as minimum wage, anti-aging strategies, and binge drinking.
To boil it down, I need to cede the floor to Paul, “Spurlock brings his documentary filmmaking style to the hour long show, providing background information when needed in the form of informative cartoons or interviews with experts and others that he conducts himself. However, he really stands back and lets the human story shine – allowing people and their experiences to speak for themselves. When the conservative homophobe basically tells his gay host that he’d be willing to go to war with him or when the Christian man experiences the hostility and stares he receives when dressed in traditional Muslim garb – the moments are powerful yet genuine.”
Unlike most of my experiences being heavily-handed brainwashed and programmed by a heavy-handed and insubtle agenda-rich writer-director, Spurlock sits on his hands.
Spurlock didn’t sit on his hands in Super Size Me, where we was a heavy-handed, insubtle, and agenda-rich writer-director himself.
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I too have tivo’d both episodes so far. It’s a phenominal show. I wish however they’d made it 60 days.