10 April 2012
Suicide is twice as common as homicide in the USA, and San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge is the most popular spot for it.
Startled by these facts, documentarian Eric Steel trained cameras on the bridge throughout 2004, capturing 24 deaths and many failed or prevented attempts, then interviewed witnesses, family members, even one man who survived.
The film throws light on one of the last great taboos, but the repeated shots of falling bodies start to seem ghoulish and the secret of each suicide remains uniquely unknowable.
The Bridge
