The Bridge 2/9

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

[WeinsteinJoshua]

1:41 - Anyone else expecting her to say "His friends were black..."?

[mk2389]

Ay, Sebastian!

[cameron1975williams]

Fifty bucks says Lisa was the smartest person in her family.

[yulicee]

@xliabiax How can you write this? Do you know them personally? I see two women struggling very hard not to break down and try and wrap their minds around something that simply cannot be grasped rationally. Grief, anger, pain, bewilderment, it's all there. They are survivors and will always hurt. Whatever their suspected failures during Lisa's lifetime, they will never know the answer and will never have a chance to overcome this.

[xliabiax]

Lisa's mom & sister disgusts me..... Clearly they were no support system for her

[huizar4289]

Lisa's sister looks like she's happy she died. :'(

[annoyingoldpartyman]

@DickieAnginson I think people need to understand grief and different ways people are going to deal with it. Yes, Lisa's sister handled it badly here, but at the same time she made sure to note that Lisa liked leather Harley gloves. I think at this point she till hadn't processed it hence her "odd" reactions.

[sugarrrsmack]

Lisa's family seem like a bunch of jerk offs....almost like they treated her like the black sheep or something. I just get that impression.

[dmk1979]

Do any of you pseudo-intellectual mealworms disagree? If you do, please suck a homeless mans scabby cock. Alright?

[dmk1979]

In fact, this wrinkly old bitch of a mother should be tortured by a sadistic murderer, diced into a thousand tiny pieces and dumped in a fucking meatgrinder so her grandkids can eat witch-sausage.

[dmk1979]

The sister and mother should be deeply ashamed of themselves. You can HEAR and SEE the judgement they pass on their mentally-ill family member. You could be perfectly healthy and still want to kill yourself if you had a family like THAT. These two women can go straight to HELL.

[andymac6263]

@katesofly well said.