"Bigger, Stronger, Faster" The Movie
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I got a very interesting email from a blog reader tonight about a documentary film that was recently seen at the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals.
It’s called “Bigger, Stronger, Faster” and it was made by Christopher Bell, a former football player at Arlington High School. Chris just graduated from USC Film School.
The film dives into the world of steroids and performance-enhancing drugs and supplements. It reveals how both of Bell’s brothers are on steroids and how much it has impacted them and their family. His brothers are bodybuilders. Chris also once used steroids.
The movie is having a local showing at the Paramount Center for the Arts on Brown Street in Peekskill on July 25 at 8 p.m., July 27 at 7:30 and July 31 at 8.
This YouTube link introduces you to Christopher Bell. It’s definitely worth checking out.
If anyone has seen it, or plans to, I’d love to get a review. Here’s what others have said:
“There’s been a glut of pointless first- person documentaries lately, but newcomer Christopher Bell has a legitimate personal take in his film about Americans who use anabolic steroids”
– Lou Lumenick, Daily News“It’s a fascinating and unexpectedly profound and melancholy meditation on what we have become as a country and on the misguided obsessions that made us this way.”
– Carina Chocano, L.A. Times“It’ll shake up your beliefs not just about steroids but about competition, hypocrisy, body obsession and American notions of masculinity”
– David Ansen, Newsweek“…manages to be two films at once: One is an informative portrait of a power-hungry society; the other is an intensely gripping narrative of personal growth.”
– New York Magazine
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Kevin:
Thanks for posting up the movie. Coach Bell works with the Croton Football Team and he sent me the msg and I passed it on to you and many others in the sports community.
It is a story that should be told.