Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

tmpsvita A documentary that deals with a theme that is certainly sad and delicate but also very interesting that can provide many food for thought that can open endless narrative ways but it is as if for the whole time the film tries to chase a goal unknown to it, to follow one of these roads but never succeed in deciding which: in which key I want to tell these stories, with what spirit, intention and to get to what end. Questions that the director continually sets up without ever knowing how to respond, so for an hour and a half he runs empty and in a very impersonal and lazy way lets the film be created by the people interviewed and by the victims themselves taking them back into the act of suicide without moving a finger. This not only indicates a certain lack of preparation (the subject is not enough to make a documentary) but also an annoying, irritating and unjust sense of instrumentalization of feelings, emotions, pain, all things that the same direction seem to lack, with his coldly way of dealing with everything. There is not even the attempt to feel compassion or understanding towards the victims, it never comes to conclude anything that can be called "purpose". Instead of creating a powerful and strong (not thanks to videos of the act, as instead made the film with zero compared to only those used to try to capture the viewer), and introspective, thoughtful documentary that tries to find an answer, to try to understand what can push a person to make such a gesture or if you can avoid in some way or a documentary about the people who saved or at least try to who was going to end his life or why that place attracts them; instead of all this they have made a documentary that only interests attention and does not want to make sense of the story that is not simply to let it be told by other people who should instead be helped and supported. In short, an abused subject that deserved to be treated differently from an inconclusive and irritating documentary that lacks heart and substance.

bjacob This may be the worst docu I've ever seen.I tried to watch it with an open mind and I was ready to not assume a moralising attitude while faced with the premise of The Bridge, which is basically a modern snuff movie. But... like another commenter observed, at each jump you can almost feel the glee of the director about having wrapped a good shot, you can imagine the conversations of the cameramen, and it's not a nice thought. And the music choices, ohmygod.This film manages incredibly to bridge the gap between gratuitous, immoral shock value and extreme dullness. There's surprising little emotion in every single scene. There's no social discourse. There's virtually no insight on the people we see dying: the interviews vaguely mention depression, mental illness -- and to think that the interviewees weren't informed about the footage of the death of their loved ones, that's so crass and insensitive that defies belief. I see this film as incorporating everything that is bad in some media industry: exploitation, gimmicks, shock value, insensitivity and superficiality. I hope this director changes career.The only way The Bridge vaguely works, is in a perverse meta-discourse: the loneliness of the suicides is exemplified by the crassness of the movie itself. The environment that couldn't save them it's the very one that produces "art" such as this movie.

supatube A film about suicide... sounds enthralling? Its actually depressing. Bleak. Colourless. Tasteless. But interesting.As a South African I know the bridge purely as the bridge in San Fran so above anything else this film told a grim story that is never told. Some may find the lack of intervention a problem but in terms of wildlife filmmaking we are to believe that we are merely there to film, not get involved. Should they have gotten involved? It would have changed the documentary from a showcase of the dreary side of a magnificent structure to that of human beings lending a helping hand to other humans. However, personally I agree with not getting involved. Suicide is not as easy as lending a helping hand. When a person does not want to live, they don't want to live and no matter what you do they will continue to entertain the idea of taking their own life. Psychology will tell us that its actually a survival technique - which is none the clearer than from the one survivor - where the brain convinces that all the wrong the person is doing is a result of the body. Therefore the brain wants to cut itself off from what it deems as the problem. After my fiancé committed suicide I was plagued with ideas of how i could have helped, of what i did wrong and how I was a terrible person to not see how bad things were. But after getting out of bed and talking to friends I found out that this was the eight attempt over the last ten years. There were no other attempts when I was around (I came along in the last two) except for the one at the end, so how was I to know? And I felt this documentary showcased that incredibly, the helplessness felt from the friends and family left behind along with the acceptance of "they were going to do what they were going to do."Its dark, heavy, sad, shocking but interesting... and not once did it pull at my tear ducts (not so difficult to do considering the subject matter) and i appreciated that fact which allowed me to think more about suicide rather than just feel it.

Clark Richards Yes, this film is mesmerizing and beautifully shot, but mostly this film comes off as exploitive and morbid. I can't abide by film makers standing by with cameras rolling while people are positioning themselves to end their lives.And while I can't hate this film entirely, I did soon grow very weary of it and I was able to realize why one of the suicide jumpers jump was being held off shown until the very end of the film. For that reason alone I should hate this film, but I am cynical enough to realize why the film was made this way and to some extent I accept it. However, that does not mean that I have to admire or like it.I can't recommend this film, but I believe that the morbid curiosity that exists within got the better of me, but I am certainly no better now because of it.