The Bridge (2006)

Awesome Movie

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Honestly, you would feel sick after watching those poor individuals jump to their deaths and see how their grieving families have nothing but praise for their loved ones. I kept trying to find out answers in my head on why these people have chosen the Golden Gate Bridge? I'm guessing they probably just use that bridge because of how many feet it was from the bridge to the river. I mean, it is after all 4,200 feet!It just breaks me heart to think these people have ended their lives so suddenly. I know life isn't hunky dory but at the same time, it would've been 10 times better to talk to someone. Unfortunately they had went to the most devastating route that any other human being could experience of being in especially their families. If you ever feel suicidal, please please for your own sake, get help from someone because there is support waiting to hear from you ♡

The Bridge is a gritty, real, unapologetic way of looking at a touching topic. Suicide is a brutal thing, with so much focused on the newly-dead, no one gets to step back and see the ones left behind. From desperation, failed attempts at love, broken lives and mental illness; The Bridge offers a up-front, graphic, look at the heartbreak people suffer. You see people in their last moments. Some take a while and contemplate, others simply do what they came to do. Either way, whatever your religious, otherworldly opinion is, you will be left saying: "I've just seen a person die." The most touching thing, both heartbreaking and heartfelt at the same time, is seeing the absence left behind. Some understand, others are hurt, others simply dismiss it. But this is a movie about grief, parallel with some amazing scenery. Constant Life and Death imagery helps reinforce the fact that people die everyday. Even on beautiful, sunny days.

I was drawn to this film as it looked an interesting topic and whilst it had it's moments, I found it a strangely shallow and at times tedious documentary. I had expected to find out a bit more about the history of the bridge and it's relationship with suicide attempts. Instead it is just a few stories of survivors and the families of victims. Some of these are moderately interesting and some of them aren't. I found the lack of a narrator to be a major flaw with this film. It was really crying out for someone to narrate it and pull it all together instead it's just random clips jumbled together in no order. There are also too many shots of the bridge with music playing which just seems to be time-filling. This isn't a documentary I enjoyed which is disappointing as I was expecting to like it. There is some dramatic footage but this is not enough to cover the flaws with the film.

This was a very heartbreaking but interesting documentary.If you cannot handle death this movie is not for you,i can understand how some people would find it too much to watch.I give credit to the film maker for bringing this issue to light,i had no idea as the same as most people.The film follow the story's of every person they film jumping which i appreciated a lot.They interview everyone family or friends which gives you background on why these people did this.its sad and interesting why people are drawn to this bridge to die.There is a interview from a kid that survived the jump,that was a good one.My jaw was dropped during most of the film,i appreciated it but like i said its not for everyone.