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The Bridge

The Bridge focuses on the large number of suicides that occur each year at the Golden Gate Bridge, capturing footage of the suicides and interviewing family members. Also interviewed are people who have attempted suicide at the bridge, witnesses of the suicides, and a jump survivor.

The movie was shot with multiple cameras pointed at a notorious suicide spot on the bridge during 2004. It captured 23 people as they took their final plunge, and then offers interviews with grieving families.

Released April 2006. Director: Eric Steel. Documentary film.

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  • jamie

    why don’t they build a higher fence or something?? an electric fence- i don’t know! something better than what they have, especially with the number of suicides!

  • Joe

    No matter how high the fence is, if they want a way out, they will find it. As for the electric fence, you gotta be kidding. That would save them the trouble of jumping, plus it could be a huge danger for others who use the bridge for legitimate purposes.

  • jamie

    well the way the rails are now they might as well put a diving board out there! i wasn’t literally serious about an electric fence, but at 2 suicides a month, you would think maybe making it a LITTLE challenging to jump over might at least give authorities time to intervene. i’m not even “against” the act of suicide, it just seems weird how they watch people jump to their deaths so easily… i mean come on- they couldn’t have made 6 foot railings?! oh well. it’s better than jumping off a building or into traffic i guess.

    • bob

      A net would be an option. That’s what we have on the eiffel tower wich was also a nice suicide spot.
      Do you thing that the crew while filming and spotting the potentials suicides candidates called the cops ?

  • Maurice Aherne

    The Bridge.
    When the fog lifts!

    Another insightful documentary.

    I’ve been there both figuratively and literally. Due to a less than positive or condusive enviroment at school; fierce reactive depression raised it’s tallons for decades;but I persisted, each and every time, somehow-to wait for the light to shine through.

    I guess saying ‘hang on in there’ wouldn’t help-(black humour is a coping mechanism )
    but life, with all it’s vicissitudes is worth living-if you hold- on, and confide in someone-anyone. Every second counts-in our brief temporal earthly lives.

    The literal part-of ‘being there’ concerns my few visits to beautiful Northern Cal; San Francisco-and that …beguiling bridge.

    If one can ‘bite hard’ and wait-and find a little perspective-one can see that most if not all -have to go through testing times-in the tragi-comic scenes of ‘life’.

    ” The darkest hours are just before dawn”-sung by the beautiful and slightly haughty Long Beachian Cal girl-Michelle Phillips. Possibly after her 8 day marriage to good ole Dennis the menace Hopper .RIP.

  • n

    ;(

  • Revanhavoc

    Tragic, really. If you are alone don’t give up. Not yet.