This could be the most morally loathsome film ever made.
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02/16/07
The Bridge (2006)
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Reviews Counted:55
Fresh:37
Rotten:18
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: Tactlessly morbid or remarkably sensitive? Deeply disturbing or viscerally fascinating? Critics are divided on Eric Steele’s unique documentary on the Golden Gate Bridge, wonder of the modern world and notorious suicide destination.
Theatrical Release:Oct 27, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $49,313
Synopsis: Shot over an entire year in 2004, THE BRIDGE is a startling documentary about San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and the people who go there to end their lives. Director Eric Steel and his crew... [More]
Director: Eric Steel
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Reviews for The Bridge
The film is not good, it is not average, it is simply not recommendable in good conscience.
10/27/06
It’s gripping viewing but you feel like a voyeur of somebody else’s pain. After a while you may feel that you’re watching a particularly scenic snuff film.
02/16/07
Far from being the exploitation of a lesser filmmaker, by recording the friends and families as they work through their thoughts and emotions, the film becomes an unusual act of compassion
11/01/06
This is a shocking film, but in its own way a profoundly humane one.
10/25/06
Top CriticThe whole thing invokes the bodies falling from that other architectural icon on 9/11 – but it’s not clear what is achieved beyond disturbance.
02/14/07
Though well-meaning, hauntingly scored and artfully photographed, this strange documentary marks the bridge as a mecca for self-inflicted death, while making us helpless observers of such horrific acts.
12/29/06
Top Criticconjures up ideas of suicide and why people do it, but it never fully explores them
10/26/06
You will never look fondly at the Golden Gate Bridge again after seeing this disturbing documentary by a filmmaker ignorant of the volatile narrative water that he dishonors.
04/24/09
There are harrowing moments: who could not be moved by a parent talking about a son’s suicide? But you do not leave the cinema with a better understanding of suicide.
02/19/07
You leave The Bridge with a new appreciation for your (relative) mental stability and a vow to make the most of your brief, ephemeral life.
10/27/06
This would be an uncomfortably voyeuristic experience if Steel weren't so careful not to exploit the material. It's an almost unbearably sad one instead.
11/16/06
Little more than a snuff film clumsily dressed up as an art house flick.
07/14/07
despite the shocking, up-close look, we're no closer to a real understanding of the terrible urge to end it all.
02/16/07
Tales are dramatic; the interviewees poignant, and the images -- often following bodies all the way down to the water -- are startling and discomfiting.
05/09/07
Top CriticQuite eerie and haunting... but a rather morbid and depressing exercise.
10/24/06
This is one movie that's guaranteed to linger in your mind after you leave the theater, whether you want it to or not.
10/27/06
None of the insights justifies the queasiness of the project
08/28/09
Despite its best intentions, however, The Bridge is ultimately only able to raise questions, failing to provide an avenue for a deeper exploration of the taboo subject.
10/30/06
This is death porn, shocking for the sake of being shocking and little else.
10/27/06
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