A personal interrogative doc, more Morgan Spurlock than Doug Block, Christopher Bell’s Bigger, Stronger, Faster uses his family’s experiences with steroids as the in point to tackle the larger roles of body perception, performance inhancement and competition in contemporary American culture. The voice of the film, delivered via Bell’s narration, can be hackneyed and a bit too cute, but on the whole Bell mounts a surprisingly sophisticated argument??????surprising because he’s a first time feature-maker, surprising because it’s clearly on Bell’s agenda to please his crowd, surprising because this is a film that uses footage from Rocky 4 to make its thesis argument??????that steroid criminalization amounts to hating the player whilst willfully ignoring the dynamics of the game.
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