Previewing at the Sundance Film Festival, a new documentary looks at movie maker Christopher Bell's personal and family involvement in the steroids game. Write up at Variety.
Call it "Super Size Me" on steroids: Christopher Bell's in-depth, yet intensely personal look at juice use among athletes attacks America's body-image obsession from the other side. Pic personifies the debate by focusing on Chris' two steroid-pumping siblings, but this isn't amateur hour with the Bell family. Helmer knows exactly what he's doing, offering a thorough survey backed by no-nonsense interviews from every corner of the issue. More scrupulously reported than your average Michael Moore film but every bit as entertaining, "Bigger, Stronger, Faster*" is as commercial as they come -- a no-brainer to market in light of recent sports scandals.
The film looks at the motives for juicing' two brothers of the film maker juice: one a powerlifter the other a pro wrestler. Talk about hitting the groups that roid up...
And therein lies the paradox. Americans set impossible performance standards but reject the "cheating" required to achieve them (making exceptions for Viagra, Adderall, beta blockers and other non-natural aids). Bell is clearly torn on the issue of steroids, having experimented with them himself at one time (he's fallen back on a smorgasbord of legal supplements for now).
But to better understand the alternative, he turns to his brothers: "Mad Dog" (Mike) started shooting steroids in college and found them essential to his goal of pro wrestling, while "Smelly" (Mark) takes power lifting too seriously not to maximize his potential through artificial means. Both siblings are completely candid about their dependence on the substance.
However the following statement appeared in the review:
Though Bell avoids the Morgan Spurlock stunt of serving as his own guinea pig, his presence permeates the film. Whether speaking to grieving father Donald Hooton (who believes steroids drove his 17-year-old son to suicide, despite convincing evidence that anti-depressants may have been the culprit)
Hopefully the film doesn't try to pull that ludicrous hypothesis off...if so it will dip into the world of Tom Cruise anti-science anti-medicine.
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