The Bridge 4/9

The Bridge focuses on the large number of suicides that occur each year at the Golden Gate Bridge, capturing footage of the suicides and interviewing family members. Also interviewed are people who have attempted suicide at the bridge, witnesses of the suicides, and a jump survivor.

The movie was shot with multiple cameras pointed at a notorious suicide spot on the bridge during 2004. It captured 23 people as they took their final plunge, and then offers interviews with grieving families.

Here is the article that inspired this film.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/10/13/031013fa_fact

Category:

Education

Tags:

• suicide
• depression
• jumper
• golden
• gate
• bridge
• san
• francisco
• california
• psychology
• love
• hate
• sad
• hopelessness

[viewergirl08]

phillips parents are so understanding but at the same time you can see how much they miss their son

[TheElephant79]

Photographer... good Dude.

[jcoltr451]

It's funny how people think of Phillip's parents as good people for letting him commit suicide, and they think of the photographer as a hero for preventing a suicide. The human brain is so beautiful, yet so hypocritical sometimes.

[indyfan22k]

dude at the end = AWESOME , hero/

[FRiEDcameltoe]

LoL I was gonna jump to a conclusion (no pun intended) and say I'm gonna find this asshole photographer and kill him for letting her jump and him just filming it.

[mahnooreo]

I seriously love Phillip's dad .

[EmiWaysChemicRomance]

I have great respect for those parents.

[carsieplg]

@cslofficial The same happened with my cousin after so long you realize that they are gone its going to happen my family spent so long trying to stop it but you can not his own words where I want to be with god only god knows the pain im in.

[loner1878]

@cslofficial

Get off your soapbox. What were his parents supposed to do, lock him in a padded room for the rest of his life? Maybe you would in your selfishness, but these parents are amazing. They realized their son was in a chronic, terrible state of pain. Keep your ignorance to yourself.

[mellimel17]

@cslofficial you don't own someone else's life just because you brought them to this world. You cannot (and should not) control their lives. It's also impossible to do. Trying to help them, yes, it's all you can do.

You clearly have never gone trough depression yourself but this doesn't give you the right to be ignorant.

[spider23000]

"She started to fight me a bit.....so I just sat on her chest"

Legend!

[spider23000]

@cslofficial Of course it's easy for you to say that now. You're just a kid, and you have not had a child who has suffered with clinical depression for over 20 years. Unless you have lived through what that guy's parents have lived through, you don't really have any right, or any grounds, to make judgemental comments like that. Please grow up a bit.