Thread: The Bridge

Originally Posted by Roller

From what I saw of the trailer, the movie looks like it has been done quite respectably and beautifully... I can't see how anyone would take offence to it. The only drawback is that I've heard a lot of people say that depicting suicide on tv or how it is achieved increases the suicide rate slightly. I'm not sure where to read that research, but it'd be interesting. It's not like people are being forced to watch the movie, either.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the amount of suicides on the Golden Gate goes up after this film gets released.

I'm probably going to watch it, if not on my own, I'll be forced to go watch it with some other people heh.

Originally Posted by blade5x

I wouldn't be surprised if the amount of suicides on the Golden Gate goes up after this film gets released.
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Definitely. I have avoided watching anything die on film for any purpose all my life, and I intend to keep it that way. Even animal documentaries showing an animal's last moments seems sick to me, so the idea of making a film documentary of it seems sadistic to me. If it were only to be used in some sort of therapy situation, I could find it believable that it were purely to help others, but if it's gonna be released mainstream, the fact is it's gonna do more harm than good; most of the audiences being curiousity at watching a real person end their life out of despair, the rest just getting bad ideas, even if they are dressing it up as a 'helpful repellent' or something.