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.
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12/29/06
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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10/18/08
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
This could be the most morally loathsome film ever made.
02/16/07
conjures 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
Little more than a snuff film clumsily dressed up as an art house flick.
07/14/07
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
One of (author Neale Donald) Walsch's precepts is that you should never make a living doing something you hate. If I'd known that, I might not have felt obliged to sit through every excruciating minute of this sanctimonious infomercial.
10/27/06
Top CriticAn attractive, well-intentioned film that is surprisingly dull and uninvolving.
10/26/06
The decision to keep the process of filming out of the film robs it of too much context.
10/26/06
Certainly there's no denying the effectiveness of some of the material here, but The Bridge never earns its parallel to Brueghel's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus."
10/10/06
The film is not good, it is not average, it is simply not recommendable in good conscience.
10/27/06
If a suicide attempt is too personal for the filmmaker to try to intervene, what right do we have to just sit back and watch?
10/26/06
Despite the proficient technique, after a while you may feel you're watching a particularly scenic snuff film.
10/26/06
Top CriticAspires to humanize the people who kill themselves at the Golden Gate Bridge, but ends up mostly reducing its subjects to their flamboyant and very public deaths.
02/10/07
If harrowing footage of deeply disturbed people contemplating a hideous suicide cross-cut with interviews with grieving loved ones who often blame themselves for failing to prevent the tragedy strike you as art - help yourself.
02/14/07
Rather slow. Interviews are meaningful and important. Shots of jumpers are rather suspect, ethically.
11/07/06
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