Comments on: The Bridge http://www.madmup.com/2010/05/the-bridge/ If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:05:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Scott http://www.madmup.com/2010/05/the-bridge/comment-page-1/#comment-2387 Scott Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:24:32 +0000 http://www.madmup.com/?p=774#comment-2387 I have wanted to see that film for a long time, specifically because of the fact that I don't think I could make the decision to film it. I wanted to see how they put this film together and how they portrayed the suicides. It's definitely a strange feeling, I would think, but it is definitely something that needs to be seen by people or else it won't be addressed. Thanks for putting this post together. I definitely understand the feeling of wanting to do more after learning about something, and I think you explained your emotions pretty well. I have wanted to see that film for a long time, specifically because of the fact that I don’t think I could make the decision to film it. I wanted to see how they put this film together and how they portrayed the suicides. It’s definitely a strange feeling, I would think, but it is definitely something that needs to be seen by people or else it won’t be addressed.

Thanks for putting this post together. I definitely understand the feeling of wanting to do more after learning about something, and I think you explained your emotions pretty well.

]]> By: TheBon http://www.madmup.com/2010/05/the-bridge/comment-page-1/#comment-2348 TheBon Wed, 19 May 2010 00:08:46 +0000 http://www.madmup.com/?p=774#comment-2348 You're right about there being some weirdness in the folks who set up a camera to film the most desperate moments of peoples' lives, but i think that there's no other way to make a documentary that really hits on it and makes people feel about things without touching that grit. It's kind of like the intervention or addiction shows. They film people in really desperate situations, and it's hard to think of them as entertainment, even though they are. But, I think partly it's also hard because we don't talk about some of the hardest things we face as people. Suicide, depression, addiction--they all get swept under the rug as things that you don't discuss in polite company and so by focusing these entertainment pieces on them, it also is putting a lens to the whys and hows and what can be done for help. You can only make a difference if accept that there is a problem. You’re right about there being some weirdness in the folks who set up a camera to film the most desperate moments of peoples’ lives, but i think that there’s no other way to make a documentary that really hits on it and makes people feel about things without touching that grit. It’s kind of like the intervention or addiction shows. They film people in really desperate situations, and it’s hard to think of them as entertainment, even though they are. But, I think partly it’s also hard because we don’t talk about some of the hardest things we face as people. Suicide, depression, addiction–they all get swept under the rug as things that you don’t discuss in polite company and so by focusing these entertainment pieces on them, it also is putting a lens to the whys and hows and what can be done for help. You can only make a difference if accept that there is a problem.

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