The Bridge (2006)

I think Dane Whipple had told me about this one years ago but I only now got around to seeing it. The Bridge is a documentary on the worlds most popular suicide destination: San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, and some of the people who both attempted and succeeded in ending there lives there during the course of 2004. Sad film is haunting in parts, and boringly prosaic in others, but on the whole holds a tragic eeriness. Apparently the film makers had set cameras on the bridge for the course of a year and you see several people actually jump to their deaths throughout. Interview subjects are mostly family and friends of the deceased and so you get an interesting cross section of responses to suicide. Really a brilliant if morbid idea for a documentary. Thumbs up.