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  • Summary: More people choose to end their lives at the Golden Gate Bridge than anywhere else in the world. The Bridge offers glimpses into the darkest, and possibly most impenetrable corners of the human mind. The fates of the 24 people who died at the Golden Gate Bridge in 2004 are linked together by a 4 second fall. (IFC) Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 18
  2. Negative: 2 out of 18
  1. Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    88
    The film avoids theorizing about why the bridge should exert such a hold over the imaginations of suicides all over the world, but Steel's dramatic cinematography, particularly the distorted telephoto shots that make the bridge loom even larger than it already does in life, provide one answer.
  2. Despite the proficient technique, after a while you may feel you're watching a particularly scenic snuff film.
  3. Eric Steel's documentary has more than a whiff of exploitation about it.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 9
  2. Negative: 1 out of 9
  1. RonL.
    10
    We need more movies like this one, less Hollywood junk. The sound track was very interesting, clarity and color was very good for a movie shot with digital video camera. The New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle newspapers gave it a very good review. Expand
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  2. TimR.
    5
    This movie definitly falls short. It comes out sad, disturbing and at some times very moving, but at the end you question its purpose. It manages to register with you but never makes you cry. Films like Deliver Us From Evil and Jesus Camp prove to be far better in this year of documentary films. Although Death of A President will take the Box Office away from The Bridge, both of them prove to be stunning yet repetative and suspenseful yet wrong. If this is the year for controversial documentary films there is only one real winer: Deliver Us From Evil. Expand
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  3. DanielY.
    3
    I am a big fan of documentary films and I was expecting this to be far better than it ended up being. "The Bridge" falls flat as a seriously repetative and strangly unpowerful mess. It follows the intresting stories of 24 people and focuses on a specific 5 or 6 but never really jolts a tear from your eyes despite its constant attempts showing actual suicide footage and supurb shots of the Golden Gate bridge. But beautiful imagery and disturbing content involving suicide are not enough for the film to really take off. It seems to try so hard but not have enough plot to work with. Director Eric Steel seems to do the best job you can with a movie like this, but at the end, the truth is, this movie should never really have been made. It shows amazing lives and the choices leading up to ending them, yes, but is that something we wan't to see on such big screens this box office season? I don't think so. It is clear that Deliver Us From Evil is the only personal-based documentary that really proves to be stunning this year. Expand
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