“Bigger, Stronger, Faster*”, an upcoming documentary from Magnolia Pictures, explores steroid use from an intimate perspective: the filmmaker’s family. With the backdrop of Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, Jose Canseco and a host of other steroid-associated athletes dominating the headlines, Director Christopher Bell’s timely film confronts the issue head on in interviews with his brothers, a pair of unapologetic steroid users.
“Mad Dog” Mike Bell began using steroids in college, feeling it was vital to his ambitions of becoming a professional wrestler. “Smelly” Mark Bell is a hardcore power lifter who cannot fathom working out without performance enhancing drugs. Minus the fingerwagging and simplistic moralizing often heard from politicians and the press, the Bell brothers’ candid firsthand insight into the subject allows the audience a true look into the mind of a steroid user and the way they justify repeatedly and habitually putting highly dangerous substances into their bloodstreams. The philosophy behind their hedonistic pursuits of bigger, stronger and faster bodies breaks down to the quintessential question enabling excess in our society, and asked by the Director himself: Why should I stop, when everyone else is doing it?
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by learning about the dangers of performance enhancing drugs on the website of the Mayo Clinic, on of the premiere medical organizations in the United States.
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the big drug companies market many harmfull drugs that hurt people every day with the blessing of the FDA .just look at the side affects on commercials , steroids is one of those non issues , grown men should be able to make up their own mind about what to personally ingest . goverment uses all these victimless issues to make revenue ,not because they care about the health and well being of any body, while I have never used roids I know people who have trained with low dosage amounts for many years and they are in good health in their 50s and 60s ,if it is ok for a athlete to tear the muscles and tendons off his bones they should be able to rehab with every thing that will help bring back their quality of life ,when the goverment starts to protect our soldiers better ,makes us energy independent ,makes sure that our bridges dont collapse on us ,stops bankrupting us , makes sure that all our good jobs arent gone ,lightens our tax burden ,makes sure our technolgy doesnt fall into our enemys hands , kills all the terrorists , takes care of the nations school systems , gets a handle on immigration , stops pissing on the constitution , and all the real issues that plague us today then they can move on to what someone who plays with a ball or some gym rat is doing with their own bodies ,we need performance enhanced goverment .
I was happy to see the producers, Magnolia, ultra liberal producers who produced Michael Moore’s biggest hit F 9/11, found a way to make America the culprit for steroids and not the person taking them illegally. It’s the American obsession to win at all costs that causes the steroids to jump out of the container and into a person’s body. The makers of the film also point out that Ben Johnson, the Canadian sprinter busted for steroids during the Olympics, was a scapegoat–as if the American government chose him specifically and not the Olympic officials who actually did the testing. Of course, there’s likely no mention of any American athletes like Marion Jones having her medals stripped. I’m assuming the Canadian government was behind that to use Jones as a scapegoat. If there’s a way to pin a problem on America or our culture, and we can do it in a movie we show all over the world, LET’S DO IT!!!!