http://documentaryheaven.com/the-bridge/ Welcome To Documentary Heaven!! Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:04:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://documentaryheaven.com/the-bridge/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Jerald Brewer Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:31:12 +0000 http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=1133#comment-61 Don't let the subject put you off as it almost did with me, because this movie handles the subject of suicide with incredible taste & tact. The filmmakers never make you feel like a voyeur & that is quite a feat given the focus of the film. It is shocking to see actual footage of "the act" but it is never gratuitous & you don't feel like you are violating any "code" watching it. I never felt squemish. What follows & surrounds the shocks are the interviews & stories of people who either saw the jumps or knew the people who plunged to their deaths. Plus there is 1 big surprise in the movie which I won't give a way here. I saw this doc twice on consecutive nights. The last time I did that with any film was "Apollo 13" Don’t let the subject put you off as it almost did with me, because this movie handles the subject of suicide with incredible taste & tact. The filmmakers never make you feel like a voyeur & that is quite a feat given the focus of the film.
It is shocking to see actual footage of “the act” but it is never gratuitous & you don’t feel like you are violating any “code” watching it. I never felt squemish.
What follows & surrounds the shocks are the interviews & stories of people who either saw the jumps or knew the people who plunged to their deaths. Plus there is 1 big surprise in the movie which I won’t give a way here.
I saw this doc twice on consecutive nights. The last time I did that with any film was “Apollo 13″

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