Watch the trailer here.
There is something so dark, so eerie, about the trailer for The Bridge, which I guess is what it's going for. There is also something inherently wrong when you profit off the deaths and misery of other people - in this case 24 people who committed suicide in 2004 from jumping from the bridge. In a way it's like the people who profit off of 9/11 footage or the monkey I have taped to my wall - we make money from seeing what we think we'll never do. Suicide, bitches, a four second fall - kablamo. The Golden Gate Bridge is the single worst location for suicides in all the world. So many go there to die. So, someone decided to make a movie about it. Since the bridge's creation in 1937, over 1000 people have lept into the choppy waters and only one has survived - Sean Connery!!! Just kidding, no one can live from a jump like that. Actually, check out this tid bit I found when reading up on the bridge:
"We've talked to people who have jumped and survived the fall," said John Vidaurri of San Francisco Suicide Prevention. "And most of them have said once they leave the platform of the bridge, they've regretted jumping off." I mean, c'mon.
At first the trailer feels like a documentary about the building of the bridge, which actually I would be down to watch on TV. Then the piano-infused music gets a little bit "Fuck You too!" and it's all down hill and terribly depressing. Then the guy with the hoodie legs over and you realize exactly what this is about - pure, uncut horror. I am mesmerized that they can actually capture real people, and I'm sure much of it is reenactments, but still....this is pretty fucked up. I really want to see this, but I will only see it if I'm drunk, stoned and alone and in San Francisco, on the bridge. Peace.
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I'm pretty sure it's not reenactments. the golden gate bridge is swarming and filled with tourists and all manner of people with cameras. When these people jump, they are generally surrounded by a crowd of people. I would bet that that footage is real, as is the splash on that final shot.
This film was made as a documentary. A film crew set up a series of cameras that would monitor the bridge 24 hours a day. When someone would prepare to jump they would immediately call the police department. They saved something like 40 people that way. The footage in the film is all the people that they were too fast for the police.
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