The Bridge (2006)
"People suffer largely unnoticed while the rest of the world goes about its business. This is a documentary exploration of the mythic beauty of the Golden Gate Bridge, the most popular suicide destination in the world, and those drawn by its call. Steel and his crew filmed the bridge during daylight hours from two separate locations for all of 2004, recording most of the two dozen deaths in that year (and preventing several others). They also taped interviews with friends, families and witnesses, who recount in sorrowful detail stories of struggles with depression, substance abuse and mental illness. Raises questions about suicide, mental illness and civic responsibility as well as the filmmaker's relationship to his fraught and complicated material." -imdb.com
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I hope they all be at peace, depression and loneliness is a sad and hard feeling to overcome
WOW how moving and so sad. God bless their hearts
.....better to hit water than concrete......
Found it a wee bit boring unfortunately.
...great doc. ...! "may b he needed a bath"...
very powerful and disturbing film, it leaves me feeling very sad for the disconnect we have with each other, but it's good to know that there are people in the world like the young man who plucked the girl from the bridge edge. We need to open our eyes and hearts to what is really happening around us and stop being so egocentric. I like to think that I would pluck someone from jumping, even at risk of embarrassing or endangering myself.
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