1. That looks like a beautifully shot film.

2. He had to have a good line of BS to get permission to shoot it. "I wanna show people offing themselves" probably wouldn't cut it.

wow, what an interesting idea. how sad and eerie, though.

is it legal to just film a suicide like that?

it also seems just a little bit exploitative, has it been verified as authentic?

i figure as long as someone wasn't watching WHILE the people were offing themselves, there isn't much anyone could do about it.

i didn't think that it was that Easy to jump off the bridge. especially after 9/11. wow. i'm oddly drawn and greatly disturbed. this reminds me of a crimescenes photo collection, of the 30's and 40's, that i keep seeing at the bookstore.

Hmmm. Part of me wants to see it, part of me wonders why it's alright to promote this, and part of me wonders why THIS seems more sinister than "Faces of Death"...which was pulled, although all those deaths were accidental/unplanned. These are obviously planned in advance, and to me, to film it, that makes a bad situation for a desperate person cheap, and life's not cheap.

Seems interesting, but I could never watch it.

Here is the fraking impossible to find website for the movie:

http://www.thebridge-themovie.com/

It has the list of the few select theaters it will be opening in.

Mostly in the bay area and a few in LA, 2 in Chicago and 3 in Manhattan.

Most of the online ticket sites say it just isn't available unless you put in the specific theater, which is retarded, because if you knew the theater, you wouldn't be going to the ticket search site to begin with.

I think this is one of those things that falls into an ethical gray area. Sure, maybe you want to produce something like this, and you can, but should you? It's not as though these were all from people's home videos or something. The crew had to wait for this exact thing to happen. I think that's the part that makes it feel very exploitative.

That's exactly what I thought, yeah.

interesting idea , but i don't think i could watch that though

I just read an interview with the director of The Bridge and he said that the purpose of the film is to make people take a harder look at the world around them.
His crew called authorities with every attempted suicide and saved 6 lives. Eric Steel also said that he wants a barrier built on the bridge to make it harder for people to jump. Hopefully this movie will help get that accomplished.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Entertainment/story?id=1896367&page=2

If this was some big-budget bloated exploitive Hollywood piece of shit I'd be angry. But it's not, it seems the filmmakers have handled their subjects with care and compassion. If the film is anything like the trailer it'll be quite haunting and thought provoking. If I can get to NYC while it's still showing I'll probably see it.

I heard it will be on IFC in a few months for anyone who can't catch it in the theaters.