The Bridge (Clip : Person is pulled to safety)

The first three and a half minutes of 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.

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Director, 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. - Richard Waters from Pittsburgh pulls the girls in the clip to safety.

Read more about this clip and the subject of suicide at http://wp.me/py1WD-dX.

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• suicide
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• Richard waters
• depression
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• loneliness
• The Bridge

[Madriley1]

I actually have a lot of respect for the man that stopped her. It makes me sick knowing that there are people who would have walked right by her. I think the fact that a random stranger went out of his way to save this woman is enough for her to live for.

[FractalZero]

One thing i don't understand.. who sits there and records this?

[MultiKatie1996]

Thumbs up if you think that they should get married.))

[angryyoungman322]

How could 33 people dislike this?  Ohh yeah...people are stupid.

[planetrockford]

@xxx111Gd Thanks.

[xxx111Gd]

@planetrockford I hear what you're saying here, but being a journalist means you can't always intervene, this film has raised awareness of the situation and I'm sure many people are taking the necessary steps to bringing the suicide rate down.

[JayElleBee13]

@69Australianhero69 Not necessarily. Perhaps this was the wake up call that made her go to therapy and begin to resolve the issues in her life. The kind of attitude you're displaying is incredibly dangerous. You can't just go around saying that there's no point trying to help suicidal people because they'll just kill themselves anyway. There are enough people in the world that would have just walked past her. We don't need more.

[planetrockford]

Why didn't the film makers stand at the end of the bridge handing out leaflets that offered support instead of filming. Very selfish behaviour,

[69Australianhero69]

If she's so depressed that she is willing to jump then nothing is Gunna stop her.. That one time she was stopped but she will try again

[330driver330]

why would you ever want to hurt your family this hard.

[arterioes]

Good on u buster, you risked your life to save another's. Hope she got the help she needed...

[jameshumphreys93]

"and then I started taking pictures of her standing on the ledge there then I realised that this girl is about to jump." AH-DUH!!! ... At least he got the idea and helped in the end!