This documentary looks at a culture predicated on might and obsessed with achieving success at any cost
di Carina Chocano The Los Angeles Times
Sylvester Stallone, Hulk Hogan, Arnold Schwarzenegger. The 1980s saw an explosion of butt-kicking in America, observes Christopher Bell in the raucously funny and surprisingly insightful prologue to his debut documentary, "Bigger, Stronger, Faster*." And as a 12-year-old kid from a loving but undeniably short and doughy family in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Bell and his brothers were particularly susceptible to the message. As he reminds us, the don't-mess-with-the-U.S. Reagan years were an overheated response to '70s downers such as the Iran hostage crisis. [...]
di Carina Chocano, articolo completo (2908 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 30 maggio 2008