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Bigger Stronger Faster

BIGGER STRONGER FASTER (DVD MOVIE)

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4 Stars Steroids as a path to celebrity and admiration
The documentary ‘Bigger Stronger Faster’ provides valuable insight as to why so many non-professional athletes turn to steroids to make their muscles larger. The majority of the main characters are struggling with an addiction to being admired and we discover the sons’ answers to the question ‘what do I want my body to look like and what am I willing to do to achieve that goal?’

The mother is overweight, but still cooks fattening food. Is it because she needs the praise that she recieves from making delicious foods more than she needs to be at a healthful weight?

She raises three sons, and all three struggle with their weight as children, each turning to exercise to mold their bodies, and eventually steroids to improve their results. The oldest and youngest brothers have become dependant on steroids to provide them with bodies that give them the same kind of approval from others that their mother’s cooking gives to her. We see the profile of a “wrestler” who is unsatisfied with coaching other athletes because he wants the limelight, and continues to audition for wrestling stardom. We see a “weightlifter” who only achieves the type of praise he craves when he can lift weights that are too heavy to handle without the help of steroids.

Bell spends part of the documentary linking the American obsession with “winning” and the use of steroids. The Bell family is really not so obsessed with ‘winning’ as they are with being in the limelight and being admired. For the oldest and youngest sons, steroids are the path that they take to achieve this goal.

The filmmaker tells us that he was disillusioned by the fact that his idols all used steroids, which in his minds invalidated the advice that kids could achieve their dreams through hard work and clean living. They completely missed the fact that each of the ‘heroes’ gave back by helping others to achieve their goals. Arnold encouraged kids to become physically fit, Hulk was famous for telling kids to say their prayers and do right, and Rocky loved his wife, family and coach. A real role model doesn’t just ‘win’ they help and inspire others. The one brother that does find a coaching job dismisses the opportunity to share his knowledge and motivate others by saying “those who can’t do, train.”

As a long distance runner, I achieve the type of body I want through diet, running and lifting weights. I want to compete in a half marathon more than I want to sleep in, eat a tray of brownies or lay on the couch and watch TV, so I dedicate myself to training. It is the same with these brothers and the other athletes that Bell interviews in the documentary. The sticking point is when having a ‘normal life’ with a happy family, rewarding job and healthy body is LESS important to the athlete than his/her body image and the respect and kudos that are gained by athletic prowess. Steroid use is a warning sign that their lives and priorities are out of balance.

5 Stars AWSOME!!! MUST WATCH!!! many people will be surprised!
This documentary was absolutely a 5 star! Christopher Bell hits steroids from most angles (if not all). There’s a lot of information that isn’t based on opinions or based off the normal gym junkie! A lot of the info comes from different sources! He even talks to a senator and it has to be the most hilarious clip in the whole doc!!!! I think he does very well in showing both sides of the story too! However, at the end of the documentary some might feel like he’s aiming towards the promotion of using steroids. This is not true! He simply puts forth steroids secret acceptance in society and presents information that describes steroids scientifically, mentally, and.. just watch it! whether your for or against steroids, I think you’ll enjoy this!!

5 Stars Absolutely brilliant
Like the title says. This is a great movie. It touches on what people think about what it means to be a man, what it means to be American, what it means to succeed, what is ‘moral’, what is cheating, and peripherally on the ‘war on drugs’.

Three moments stand out for me:

Chris Bell’s meeting with the father of a high school kid who was supposedly driven to commit suicide because of steroid use. Bell questions what else might have been going on in that kid’s life. The father mentions that the family lives in a town where achievement is very important. We get to see the kid’s room — it is stuffed with sports trophies. (Maybe dad was pushing his kid too hard?) It turns out the kid was taking Luvox — which has been implicated in suicidal and homicidal thinking. Dad wants to blame steroids, so he bats away all of Bell’s questions. Meeting with that kid’s father and diverging from the standard “steroids are evil” script took a lot of nerve, but it was done well and respectfully;

The second moment came with (then senator) Joe Biden’s grandstanding against steroids in a Senate committee meeting. Biden says that the thought of athletes using anything but what God gave them to win at their sport offends him — this from a guy who got hairplugs and dental veneers for a leg up in his game (coincidentally, Biden’s the same idiot who pushed the RAVE Act, which made possessing a baby pacifier at a party illegal), and;

The third moment was Arnold Schwarzenegger’s being named GHW Bush’s chairman of the Presidential Council of Sports and Physical Fitness — after the president signed the bill outlawing steroid use. Arnold never would have been ‘Mr. Universe’, or a movie star, or governor, had it not been for steroids.

And someone once said Americans don’t do irony.

4 Stars Worth Your Time
Bigger, Stronger, Faster is an entertaining and informative look inside the world of body building and steroid use. Bell gives the viewer access to experts and builders who are for or against the use of steroids, personalizing opinions with insight and access to his own family of body builders.

While I didn’t come away from the film with a new opinion on the subject (I am against the use of illegal performance enhancing drugs) I do believe I have a better appreciation for those that do use. Consider the one brother who was able to bench hundreds more than our narrator simply because he did use. It definitely puts a dent in the “steroids don’t make the player” arguments.

No matter your view on the subject this film will entertain you and educate you. I recommend it.

5 Stars good stuff
I enjoyed the DVD. Good to see someone give out honest information about these powerful drugs.

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