
Bigger, Stronger, Faster
Chris Bell grew up idolizing wrestlers and bodybuilders, and this film turns the camera on his own family to ask why so many Americans will risk their health to win. His brothers Mike and Mark, both steroid users chasing careers in powerlifting and pro wrestling, anchor the story, one still competing, the other watching his body and his prospects wear down. Bell interviews doctors, politicians, and athletes who complicate the simple anti-drug message, pointing out that LASIK surgery, caffeine pills, and plastic surgery are also performance enhancers nobody bans. Congressional hearings on steroids in baseball appear alongside footage of gyms where users talk plainly about dosages and risk, treating the drugs as a workplace tool rather than a moral failing. The film keeps returning to its real question: whether the steroid panic is really about health at all, or about an American culture that demands winning by any means and then punishes the people who take it literally.