His journey is punctuated with famous cameos, interviews with and commentary by consultants, animations and CGI trips into human bodies to illustrate the science, scenes with doctors and nutritionists examining his progress, candid home-life interactions with his pregnant girlfriend, Zoe Tuckwell-Smith, comic analogies and experiments to visually depict the statistics and ideas being offered, and trips to an Aboriginal community and the US to give a broader sense of the importance and impact of the issue.
His focus is not on junk food as such, but on the sugar added to foods perceived to be healthy and low-fat. He had cut refined sugar from his own diet for the previous five years, but sets himself the challenge of eating an 'Australian average' of 40 teaspoons of 'hidden' sugar a day for sixty days in order to experience and evaluate the effects. In the style of Super Size Me (Morgan Spurlock, 2004), Australian actor Damon Gameau undertakes a personal mission to explore the conflicting information and ideas about sugar levels in Western diets. Moreover, the accessibility of the subject matter opens up opportunities for film analysis and critical thinking whereby students feeling challenged by the message of the film can examine its construction, genre, style and persuasive techniques, assess the success of these features, and weigh them up against the importance and significance of its agenda, pedagogical purpose, and audience impact. Its title plays on this expectation, anticipating that viewers will continue talking about the documentary after seeing it, and it is presented in a dynamic and entertaining way in order to make it a valuable tool for teaching nutrition and food sciences to middle years and senior students. That Sugar Film (Damon Gameau, 2014) is openly geared towards creating dialogue about our health, food choices and changing ideas about what constitutes 'healthy eating'. KIM EDWARDS explores how this entertaining new film can prompt student discussions about the issue itself as well as the mechanics of the documentary form. It's one of the most keenly debated dietary topics in the Western world: just what is sugar really doing to our bodies? At a time when even bread is commonly sweetened, it's an issue that everyone needs to be aware of from a young age.
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