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Did anyone see The Bridge, a documentary about people who jump off the Golden Gate Bridge?
If you did, I'd really like you to share your opinion about it.
For the whole time I was watching it, I felt really shocked. Shocked of seeing people kill themselves, yes, but even more shocked of the filming. Before watching the making of, I was thinking: you got to be kidding. I can't believe people where there with their cameras without doing a thing about it. I mean, some of the people who jumped were just too quick for anyone else to try and stop them, but some lingered for a while. And you could see others passing by and not doing a thing...This guy was crying and obviously not well, yet a tourist asked him to take a picture of her just minutes before he jumped (he miraculously survived)! Didn't she notice him really? Was she too excited about being on the famous bridge? Dis she think it was best not to say anything? I understand that you want to respect someone's privacy, but when you are on a bridge like that?
Another interesting thing was this guy taking pictures and seeing a girl climbing on the other side of the barrier (or whatever it's called on a bridge, sorry for my lack of vocabulary this morning). He kept taking pics of her for a while before realizing what he was actually witnessing and grabbing her.
In the making of, you learn that the director and the rest of the staff had walkie-talkies and cell phones and would call the police whenever they saw someone acting "weird". I was relieved to hear that, for I couldn't imagine someone filming without at least trying to do something about it. The crew actually managed to save a few persons.
But one thing remains. During the whole movie, you hear family and friends talking about this guy and, at the same time, you see him on the bridge, walking and stopping and walking..., for a long time. Now I don't know if he was there only a few minutes before jumping, but you see him throughout the film at different momentsand it seems like he's been there for quiet a while. If that's the case, how could they not do something about it? At least have someone on the bridge, ready to talk to him? It's horrible to watch images of the guy for an hour and a half, because you know he's going to do it, or at least try. But that's the thing: you think that, because you've seen him for such a long time, someone's going to do something about it, and he won't succeed. Yet, at the end, he jumps and dies. I don't get it. I hope the actual timing was short. I hope it wasn't possible for anyone to help.
And then there's the whole thing about actually filming people killing themselves and showing it to the world, obviously without their consent. I know it's to show others how life really is and blah blah blah, but for me it's not all that clear.
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