Wednesday, January 07, 2009

The Bridge (2006/I)

Documentary about people who attempted suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate bridge. The film shows several of those people during the minutes before jumping as well as their actual leap into the void. It also interviews family and friends of the deceased and one person who survived the jump.

What exactly is the point of this, again? I am not the first to ask this question, and probably won't be the last. I will make an exception for the interview with the guy who survived. Not only because his description of the jump and how he was saved is interesting (a seal kept him afloat!), but basically because it's the only instance where we're hearing it from the horse's mouth. From the other testimonies I learned next to nothing, they're too trivial or vague.

Rating: 23

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