The Bridge

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Theatrical Release Date:

10/27/2006

DVD Release Date:

06/12/2007

Run Time:

94min.

Starring:

Kevin Hines , Patrick Hines , Rachel Marker , Tara Harrell , Carolyn Presley

Director(s):

Eric Steel

Distributor(s):

IFC

MPAA Rating:

R for disturbing content involving suicide, and for some language.

Genre(s):

Documentary,Special Interest

Plot: Inspired by a New Yorker story, "Jumpers," written by Tad Friend, director Eric Steel decided to train cameras on the Golden Gate Bridge over the course of 2004 to capture the people who attempted to leap off the famed structure, the site of more ... Read More

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Signs posted along the entire span of the Golden Gate Bridge walkway warn: 'Jumping From This Bridge is Both Fatal and Tragic' and urge the use of a crisis hotline wired to available handsets. There i... s a Bridge Control unit; there are San Francisco police officers on patrol; there is a crisis center. More people have chosen to end their lives at... See More the Golden Gate Bridge than anyplace else in the world. I visited The Bridge before I saw this film. Inexplicably, I was drawn to it - a sort of strange romanticism. I walked over three miles from Fishermans Wharf to see it - then another 1.7 miles across it. Looking over the ridiculously low railing, the cold green water dangerously swirled in the tangled currents of the Bay below. I wondered how any person could feel so desperate, alone and hopeless so as to hoist over that railing and leap to death in 4.1 seconds. I morbidly wondered if there is pain upon contacting the water? Is death immediate, or are there agonizing conscious moments of fatal realization once in the water? What adversely affected me the most about this film was the fact that the camera person watched Gene Sprague for a long time before he pushed backward off the rail - a sort of vouyer stalker. It had to be apparent at least at some point that he wasnt going to leave The Bridege other than by a suicidal leap. Was it worth the shock value to benefit the film for the cameraman to ********** and wait and do nothing? Almost a willful, encouraging anticipation - and isnt it illegal to fail or refuse to call the police and at least try to stop a suicide? The film then shamelessly interwove Gene's tragic story throughout, leading up to his leap, in a sort of coldhearted storytelling spin that should only be deemed to be sensationalism in its rawest form. This is a disturbing, graphic film that shocks and, like any horrible tragic reveal, demands attention from begining to end. Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away But something in our minds will always stay Perhaps this final act was meant To clinch a lifetime's argument That nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could For all those born beneath an angry star Lest we forget how fragile we are ~Sting 2 minutes ago Â Full Review

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