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BIGGER,
STRONGER,
FASTER
“what are the side effects of taking steroids?”, fragt der regisseur christopher bell seinen
älteren bruder, der mit 37 immer noch wrestlingstar werden will. “your balls shrink, but
who needs them anyways!”, kommt die lockere antwort. “bigger, stronger, faster” war einer
der lichtblicke des diesjährigen münchner filmfestes. eine ebenso harte wie lustige doku über
das thema doping. ich traf chris kurz vor seinem abflug an seiner hotelbar, wo er nach einer
harten nacht ein schönes konterbier trank. TEXT UND FOTO: JAN VOSS
curt: so your movie is half about saying “cheating
is bad“ and half about saying “there’s a
lot of lies about steroids“?
Chris: Well, the movie is an examination
about what people do to win. America is a win
at all costs culture. Steroids are a side effect
of being American. If you do anything what it
takes to win, steroids just plug into that fact.
When you have sports, you need rules. If you
don’t have rules you have lawlessness, right?
If somebody kicks a goal and it doesn’t go in
the goal, but you say “no, no, that was a goal“
then you’re cheating. The way I look at it is
that in sports you need to have rules, but what
about all the people that are not in sports?
What about when you’re not in sports? What
about all the people who are taking steroids
to look better or feel better about themselves?
Is it any better then plastic surgery or botox? I
just wanted to reexamine it.
curt: if people want to do steroids, let them
have them?
Chris: People like to say “it’s bad to use
steroids“ and when I ask them “what is the difference
between steroids and plastic surgery?“
they say “well steroids are dangerous!“ and I
say “well so is plastic surgery“. In the movie we
encounter that steroids aren’t nearly as dangerous
as we thought. It’s basically a synthetic
version of testosterone. It’s a hormone that
you already have in your body. Basically you’re
just putting a little more fuel on the fire. So
many people have demonized steroids.
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My brothers were doing it and I was thinking,
are my brothers going to die? So an important
thing for me was to explore it for my family.
I started out making kind of an anti steroid
movie, but it turned into a movie where at the
end you don’t know what to think about it
anymore.
curt: so you intended to make a movie that
would say, steroids are really bad?
Chris: yes. But what most people get out of
the movie is, that even if steroids aren’t that
bad health wise, it’s unhealthy to have that
win-at-all-costs-attitude. Both of my brothers
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