The Bridge
July 18th, 2006
This trailer for the upcoming documentary “The Bridge” has totally freaked me out. Some guy set up cameras on the Golden Gate, and apparently captured a lot of footage of people committing suicide. Even the preview is hard to watch.
[...] the most popular suicide destination in the world, and the unfortunate souls drawn by its siren call. 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 more than 100 hours of interviews with friends, families and witnesses, who recount in sorrowful detail stories of struggles with depression, substance abuse and mental illness.