Filming Suicides
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- dbloc
Golden Gate Bridge officials are seething that a moviemaker who told them he was working on a "day in the life" project about the landmark was, in fact, capturing people on film as they jumped to their deaths.
- j_red0
whoa.
- janne0
faces of death.
sick.
and why?
does it educate us??
i think not, just a way to sell drama.
really sad.
- -leah-0
i agree with you 100% janne
- mayo0
sometimes i just really hate people.
- Point50
What's crazy is the comments by the "Bridge Commitee". Why don't they just admit that they don't want the bridge to viewed as suicide structure rather than say that the filmmaker's work makes them think about "snuff films"... Give me a break. I bet everyone of those commitee members were glued to the TV when those poor ppl trapped on top of the WTC jumped rather than be burned alive. Was anyone thinking snuff film then? I don't think so. It's cool that CBS or BBC or CNN show horrible footage from massacres in Somalia or the Tsunami aftermath in Indonesia, but when a filmmaker decides to document those who take their own lives and his work is descraibed in disgust.
Personally, I've got to see this film. I find the concept very intriguing. Especially since nobody knew the camera was there.
- k0na_an0k0
what a leech.
- vespa0
lethally irresponsible.
research shows that when suicides are publicised in the media, the number of suicides occurring immediately afterwards peaks. it's like people who were considering the idea find it more alluring if they know other people are doing it. that's why suicide reporting in the UK has to follow quite strict guidelines, i think they can't show images of it or give details on how it was done.
shameless way to make your name as a "filmmaker".
- b0ner0
Exploiting other people's pain and sufffering, all the while you're making the money selling these tapes?!!? C'mon man!
This is just tasteless.
- fadeproof0
Point5 - right on my man!
- chrisartist760
it's not the cheeriest of subjects, but the study of the human mind/spirit and what it resorts to is interesting. if his intentions are to 'make his mark' as a film maker and make alot of money, then he IS a leech. if it is infact a thorough study of the victims and their families, maybe we can better understand our own nature and how to prevent our fellow human beings from reaching such desperation.
i think...
- vespa0
"It's cool that CBS or BBC or CNN show horrible footage from massacres in Somalia or the Tsunami aftermath in Indonesia, but when a filmmaker decides to document those who take their own lives and his work is descraibed in disgust."
I'm surprised you can't see the difference Point5: reporting world events may help to raise money or awareness about a natural disaster or humanitarian crisis; making an unsolicited film about peoples' most desperate final moments is an opportunistic way to get publicity as a filmmaker, exploiting human misery for a commercial product that may lead to more death through copycat acts.
- mayo0
I think the difference between the people who jumped from the WTC is that they, in my opinion, were going to try anything to stay alive in hopes of a miracle or thought that, if this is the end for them, jumping is a [hopefully] quicker and less painful way. Human nature is to survive unless something is horribly wrong with a person.
- max_prophet0
suiciders should be more inventive and think of cleaner, more private, more socially acceptable ways of committing suicide. Maybe there should be some kind of self cleaning suicide booths available in cities.
- k0na_an0k0
my last comment was aimed at the filmmaker. btw.
that's just something i don't need to see. same reason i've never seen any of the faces of death videos.
- vespa0
there's loads of research been done on the topic. i'm sure the filmmaker would be familiar with the well documented effects of publicising suicide.
http://www.crisiscentre.bc.ca/me…
http://www.med.uio.no/ipsy/ssff/…
http://jom-emit.cfpm.org/2001/vo…
http://www.afsp.org/research/art…
- k0na_an0k0
Maybe there should be some kind of self cleaning suicide booths available in cities.
max_prophet
++++++++++++++++++++
futurama had that. that's how bender and fry met. in a suicide booth. fry unknowingly selected 'very painful' and a bunch of chainsaws, blades and other assortments of crude killing devices came out. hillarious.maybe it would be eaqually funny if we did that in real life.
hmmm...
*checking patents online
- abizzyman0
suicide's a final attempt at attention... right?... so promoting it on camera is pretty much disgusting...
... someone commented above how suicides go up when they're publicised - makes perfect sense to me.
sick.
- janne0
"I bet everyone of those commitee members were glued to the TV when those poor ppl trapped on top of the WTC jumped rather than be burned alive."
in fact i looked away in most of those cases. i cannot take that sort of shit..
- Gorbie0
Why don't they just admit that they don't want the bridge to viewed as suicide structure rather than say that the filmmaker's work makes them think about "snuff films"
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Marin County Supervisor and bridge board member Cynthia Murray said it is both fascinating and tragic that the bridge continues to be a magnet for suicides, and she worries about the effects Steel's movie might have.
"This could unfortunately add to people's interest to use the bridge as a final step," she said. "It seems the more you talk about this, the more there's a chance of copycat (suicides), and that would be extremely unfortunate if that was the case with this movie."
- chrisartist760
nice info vespa. i'm with kona....this guy (filmmaker) IS a leech....