The Bridge is a controversial 2006 documentary film by Eric Steel that tells the stories of a handful of individuals who committed suicide at the Golden Gate Bridge in 2004. The film was inspired by an article entitled "Jumpers," written by Tad Friend appearing in The New Yorker magazine in 2003.
The documentary caused significant controversy when Eric Steel revealed that he had tricked the Golden Gate Bridge committee into allowing him to film the bridge for months and had captured 23 of 24 known suicides which took place during filming phase of the project. In his permit application to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area Steel said he intended "to capture the powerful, spectacular intersection of monument and nature that takes place every day at the Golden Gate Bridge."[2]
The movie was shot with multiple cameras pointed at a notorious suicide spot on the bridge during 2004. It captured 19 people as they took their final plunge, and then offers interviews with grieving families.
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bamdrewwow. the family interviews. especially the one at 26min.
the bridge is such a beautiful place. the structure and its environment are so very surreal.
choggieOk somebody needs to watch phelixian......
Mr. Steel, you're a fucking voyeur, the world needs more people, less like you-
The solid sender here in this dark little masturbatory romp, is the fellow on the bridge, with the camera, that caught his snap, let his camera swing, and reached out and grabbed the girl by her jacket and hoisted her in.
The bi-polar fellow who survived??? His moment of clarity came, the second he left the rail, "Oh shit, I want to live!!"....that is what they would all tell you, themselves, and the benevolent omni-being, if they could only rewind a few seconds.....He got off with some shattered vertebrae, and his same bi-polar brain the next day.....and guess what??? Life goes fucking on......the rub is, it would have gone on had he not been hoisted up by the seal having fun, in yet another state of consciousness....
If Ida had been privy to the guy gathering stock for this little ditty.....We'd have some new procured camera equipment, and he would have had a hyper-flexed couple of kneecaps.......
sbchapmhmmm. Well, I have to disagree with choggie here. I found this movie moving and challenging and strange. I really doubt, from listening to all the interviews with loved ones, that all those who jumped regretted it as they fell. The shots of the bridge itself lend some understanding as to why they would choose that place to jump, and it some ways, it's quite a statement: if they can jump there, in that majestic and beautiful place, then there's almost nothing we could offer to keep them here.
phelixianlol choggie. i fav'd it so I could finish watching it later, not because i was looking for inspiration.
i found this moving and strangely beautiful. at first glance i was like i don't want to see this, way too depressing, but really it isn't in some odd way.
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NordlichReiter"Like those trees, we are all dying. The future is an illusion, our plans are an illusion, our fears an illusion. We live life in every breath. Now. Every cup of tea. Every word we write... Every blossom we hold. Every life we take. A beat. Life in every breath. That is bushido." - Katsomoto The Last Samurai
You can try to stop this, but it is the Human Condition, like the desire to see others suffer, the desire for sex, or the any other desire that you can compare.
But, as certian things are scientifically discovered (this is not a scientific article http://www.oxytocin.org/oxytoc/love-science.html) they may find that all things that happen in a brain is a chemical reaction. Love is a chemical induced euphoria, glee also. If depression is a chemical imbalance, then the will that most humans have to keep them from self harm can be altered by chemical reaction.
The happening is a movie rendition of the belief that a chemically induced stupor can make the brain kill itself.
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