RIP Morgan Spurlock
Yup - it’s a story
Hopefully a fact-based story, but a story first and foremost
Super-Sized Me was a very good, entertaining movie, so Spurlock succeeded in that regard and maybe exceeded his own expectations before making the film.
But his methodology, claimed weight gain and subsequent liver problems he primarily points to eating nothing but unhealthy fast food at McDonald's for a month werent fact-based or really accurate despite the relentless narrative he constantly pushed. There was another "hidden variable" like his then-severe alcoholism that was more largely responsible for his weight gain and liver issues.
I suppose I can't blame you, Guido, if you watch Super Size-Me in the context of it being a good movie, it's just not a good, or truthful documentary, as Sun very wisely and acutely points out. Their are other documentaries that are both good movies and lot more truthful and honest as it relates to their subject matter or specific historical events.
Take Slavery by Another Name or 13. Great, outstanding documentaries about how our prison incarceration system is a multi-million dollar racket and how post-Civil War Southern penal colonies and elsewhere used essentially slave labor from African-American convicts on chain gangs working in mines, digging up ditches, roads, highways, infrastructural repair work like rebuilding or renovating bridges, tunnels in the late 19th/early-to-mid 20th centuries.