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 Post subject: Has anyone seen the documentary The Bridge?
PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 1:53 pm 
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Freaked me out. Documentary about Golden Gate Bridge suicides. Footage at the end was really disturbing.Guy called Gene throws himself of the bridge backwards. Interviewed the family & friends.

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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. Written by G. Leggat


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0799954/


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 Post subject: Re: Has anyone seen the documentary The Bridge?
PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:18 pm 
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petecockroach Wrote:
Freaked me out. Documentary about Golden Gate Bridge suicides. Footage at the end was really disturbing.Guy called Gene throws himself of the bridge backwards. Interviewed the family & friends.


No Gene! Don't do it!

Really great doc and it stayed with me awhile too. I have to admit, Gene went out like a rock star. It was very interesting listening to the different back story's... especially the family that seemed very supportive of their son committing suicide. Very weird.


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thanks for the heads up dude. looks like it's right up my alley (imma doc geek)


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This also looks right up my alley.

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Netflix'd. It's 104 in my queue. I'll get it in three years.


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netflix'd.

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queued. (i need to remember to tell wife, who rents mostly documentaries, that this is not something she wants to watch.)

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