This documentary, directed by Chris Bell, is currently playing in limited release. Hopefully, it's playing near you, because it's one of the best films of the year.The director turns the camera on himself (a former body builder) and his family (his two brothers used steroids) a la Morgan Spurlock and Michael Moore and asks some serious questions about America.
On it's surface, the film is an incredibly well researched treatment on the dis-information about performance enhancing drugs in America. However, he digs deeper to illuminate the contradictory messages America seems to have on the topic and it's incredible desire for it to be the best.
What's even more interesting is that Chris Bell doesn't seem to side on the pro- or anti- steroid side. He provides incredible proof contradicting the 'steroids will kill you' message of the media, and incredible interviews with high-profile athletes admitting to steroids use. He almost has us convinced that steroids are completely safe, until the story of his brothers starts to develop. He see one of his brothers still jacked up, still trying to get into the WWE despite years and years of rejection, and still has his marriage hanging on a thread. Bell asks some tough questions of American Society, and of ourselves, in how far is it ok to go in order to be the best.
A graduate of USC's film school, Bell has crafted an incredibly thought provoking, but still fun documentary.
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