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“Bigger, Stronger, Faster”, the original documentary from Chris Bell, and produced by many of the people who have worked on Michael Moore’s documentaries, is a very bewitching, level-handed view at the employ of steroids in America.
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“Bigger” is better than your average documentary for two key reasons. Chris Bell is a likable, very genuine guy and he guides us through this maze of information mighty like he probably learned about it in the first region, giving us an in depth gape into the consume of steroids and how they have affected both the practice and perception of sports in America, and to a lesser extent, the world.
The second, and perhaps more distinguished reason this film sticks out is because it comes from a personal space in Chris’ life. As he snappily explains during the beginning of the film, he was the middle of three children, all boys, who grew up with a loving, overweight mother and a loving, but busy with work father. In an attempt to stand out from the rest of the kids, each of the brothers decides to consume up weight lifting and try to become well-known as wrestlers, hoping to follow the likes of their heroes, Hulk Hogan, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger into the limelight. They each transform their rotund bodies into plump muscle powerhouses, but the fame is quiet fleeting.
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Chris’ older brother, Stamp, actually makes it into the WWE, but his role is that of the guy who always gets beaten up by the more grand and more distinguished wrestlers. He doesn’t last long. So he starts to select steroids.
Chris decides the diagram to perform it into the limelight is to recede to Southern California, to be closer to the action, and the auditions. He naturally ends up at Venice Beach and gets a job working in Gold’s Gym, the plot made distinguished by many weightlifters and body builders, by Schwarzenegger and Stallone. In a particularly telling moment, Chris speaks with one of the gym members, a man well past his prime who continues to work out at the gym, and lives in his little van in the gym parking lot. You can whine from the expression on Chris’ face he sees the similarities between them as he looks at the guys living quarters. You can almost peruse him pray that he won’t slay up in the same situation; homeless, working out, continuing to hope for stardom.
Chris’ younger brother, Mike, had development problems growing up, so he decided to follow his other brothers into weightlifting and bodybuilding. This focus clearly helped him to improve his life and his attention to detail, but he also decides to try to improve the workouts through the expend of steroids.
Chris knows his brothers exhaust steroids, but he has stayed away from them. He wonders why one of three children would feel the need to do things the ‘right’ draw, the harder blueprint, and end away from the drugs? This is what leads him on the mosey through this documentary.
The best scenes involve Chris and his family. On a visit home, he talks to his mom, a perfectly likable, overweight, middle-aged woman who spends her life as a stay-at-home mom. As they talk, she makes a batch of her celebrated bar cookies for a local high school sports team. It is unclear why she collected makes these for the local high school, but it is determined the bars are both very pleasant and not gross rotund. Chris claims his mother doesn’t know that his brother consume steroids. She may not admit it, but you can sigh she knows. Behind in the film, Chris has dinner with his brothers and mom and dad and steers the conversation towards steroids, hoping that his brothers will finally admit it to their parents. Mom asks a few questions, giving the brothers an opportunity to arrive orderly. But they maintain their secret. And so does mom.
As he meets with and talks to his brothers, we learn each of their stories and they couldn’t be more different.
But Chris also seeks to understand the influence of steroids throughout sports. He speaks with many people, both pro and con, amateur and professional, and it appears that everyone is using some sort of enhancement. As the tagline for the film states “if everyone is doing something, can it be illegal? ”
He talks about how heartbroken he was when he learned Hulk Hogan was using steroids, despite all of the famed wrestler’s encouragement to acquire bigger through hard work. He talks about extinct NFL player Lyle Alzado’s sickness, which the NFL Player attributed to the consume of steroids. Interestingly, the footage from an interview faded in the film features Maria Shriver in her pre-Mrs. Ahnuld career. He talks about Stallone and interviews both Carl Lewis and Floyd Landis. These moments, interspersed with graphics, and other humorous methods of presenting the message, combined with the personal side of the sage, effect for compelling viewing.
There are also a few scenes from an used after school special featuring Ben Affleck dealing with the side effects of using steroids. These scenes provide a welcome moment of laughter because they are so over the top and heavy handed.
I reflect Chris may have actually found his entry into the limelight. I could easily peep him parlaying this film into a television series or series of specials, ala Morgan Spurlock. They have similar personalities and Spurlock has made a number of films and season 3 of “30 Days”, the series of documentaries he makes for FX is currently airing. Chris is an extremely favorable, likable person who clearly listens to his subjects, whatever their state, taking everything in. As he presents both sides of the argument, he appears to be genuinely enthusiastic in what they have to say, waiting for them to enact and for his mind to process before forming an conception of his occupy.
Chris Bell’s “Bigger, Stronger Faster*” is a luminous documentary. His triumph is to crystallize the steroids debate into its effects on a single family: His absorb. The stars of the film are the Bell brothers – vast brother Price (aka, Furious Dog) is a would-be WWE wrestler; younger brother Mike (aka, Smelly) is one of the world’s top power lifters; and writer/director Chris – no less addicted to perfecting his physique – balances his bodybuilding obsession with a degree from USC Film School. His novel blend of interest and career path has given us a sharp film.
Here’s the thing: his work is neither ardently pro- nor anti-steroids. But, as its subtitle (“the side-effects of being American”) implies, Bell notes what happens when three young brothers obsessed with wrestling (we look family tapes of them re-enacting WWE plotlines) have the various heroes of their youth (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hulk Hogan, and Sylvester Stallone as primary examples) subsequently revealed as pharmaceutically-fueled.
It’s a testament to Bell’s skill as a filmmaker that the unexpected standout is Smelly’s wife, Andie. Exquisite and vow, she emerges as the soul of the film. She comes across as a decent, trusting person. Without belaboring the point, Bell makes you contemplate her as testament to his brother’s depth and inherent goodness. Her presence also evokes feelings of betrayal in the film-goer when Smelly begins to waffle on his “no more steroids” deliver at the slay of the film.
Despite the glut of documentaries that have flooded the film world over the past two years, this one ranks at the top of my list.
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