The Bridge

[Argonaut]

Ich habe mir letztens diesen merkwürdigen und wie ich finde, beängtigenden Trailer angeguckt:

http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/tixS ... umber=1903


und danach versucht, ein paar Informationen mehr über den Film zu bekommen, konnte aber nicht wirklich etwas finden.
Weiss ev. jmd mehr über diesen Film (oder ist es eine Doku?).

[vom Wyatt Earp der Bruder]

Es ist wohl eine Art Doku. Über die vielen Suizidanten an der Golden Gate Bridge.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0799954/


Infos von der von dir angegebenen Seite:

The Bridge
Int'l Documentary Competition
[BRIDG] 2006 93 min
Directed By: Eric Steel
World Premiere

In this bold and thought-provoking documentary about suicide and its complex aftermath, Steel spends from dusk until dawn filming the Golden Gate Bridge everyday for a year, capturing nearly two dozen suicides that occurred in 2004. Intercut with these frightening leaps are interviews with the family and friends of the deceased.
- David Kwok

The Golden Gate Bridge, with its views of the San Francisco Bay and skyline, is an American icon and a major tourist destination. But it is also the site of more suicides than any other place in the world. The question of why this particular bridge is such a magnet for suicides (along with the broader issue of suicide, and mental illness in general) is explored in Eric Steele's debut documentary, which he began to work on after reading Tad Friend's New Yorker article on the subject. Every day during 2004, Steele set up his cameras and filmed the Golden Gate Bridge during daylight hours. Day after day, he and his crew observed thousands of people crossing the bridge on foot from San Francisco to Marin County and back. They filmed everyone from tourists to bicyclists, but ever so often a person would climb over one small part of the bridge's mile-long railing and let go. However, while the camera can record the act of suicide, it cannot tell us what leads a person to such an extreme action or what thoughts run through someone's mind during those last moments. In an attempt to uncover some of these mysteries, Steele crossed the country in order to interview friends and families of the jumpers he captured on film, on-scene witnesses to various jumps, and even a jump survivor. These testimonials elevate the jumpers in the film from nameless statistics to human beings whose lives have inexorably led them to a tragically decisive moment on the Golden Gate Bridge. Like the bridge itself, this film is beautiful, powerful, and possesses an underlying darkness.
- David Kwok



Mir hat der Trailer sehr gut gefallen, geradezu in seinen Bann geschlagen.. würde den Film gern sehen.

[Martin Siodlaczek]

Wirkt sehr vielversprechend der Trailer und macht Lust auf mehr. Ich fange langsam an mich wirklich dafür zu interessieren und würde mir den sogar im Kino antun, wo ich normalerweise (außer Fahrenheit 9/11 und We feed the World) keine Dokumentarfilme schaue.