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This is the first film I have seen about the addiction to hormones.

The main character has to have testosterone because he cannot produce it naturally.

How he came to be that way and what happens when he becomes addicted to the essential drug is the theme of

Bullhead (2011)

I got to this film because I am trying to see all of the work of Matthias Schoenaerts, who bulked up for this role naturally without the steroids that his character has to have.

There is a lot of violence in this film and a few distractions in the plot which make it a bit hard to watch.

When on the screen, Schoenaerts is a force of nature. A beauty trapped in a beast's body. When he is off stage, things lag.

This is a classic plot, one of the thirteen universal stories. The tragic hero.

I liked this film a lot but had to look away a few times. There are animals involved and while there is a scene where they have to take a calf not one of them is hurt.

Not so much can be said of the guys who get pummeled and beaten up along the way.

One more thing. It was a nominee for best foreign film in the Academy Awards.

This film is a 3 out of Netflix5. Not for everybody and almost not for me but when I was done I watched the "making of" bits to come down from my own adrenaline high. I usually do not do that. I let the film stand on its own.

But t his time I needed to detach and the little short helped.