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SUICIDE FILM SCREENED AT LONDON FESTIVAL
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SUICIDE FILM SCREENED AT LONDON FESTIVAL
A controversial movie showing real-life suicides is to be screened at a London film festival, despite being met with disapproval across the world.
THE BRIDGE, which shows six people jumping from San Francisco's famous Golden Gate Bridge, will be shown at the London Film Festival on Monday (23OCT06). The Bridge was earlier rejected by film festivals at Cannes and Berlin, with one organiser describing it as "voyeuristic, nothing more".
Director ERIC STEEL believes the movie forces the audience to rethink their position on mental illness and suicide, and allows them to "bear witness to something profoundly disturbing".
The movie has also attracted heavy criticism from suicide experts, who believe it could lead to an increase in similar behaviour as shown on-screen.
Professor KEITH HAWTON of the Centre for Suicide Research at Oxford University in the UK says, "All research suggests that showing, in detail, methods of suicide does result in an increase of those methods immediately afterwards, so portrayal of methods of suicide is ill-advised."
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21 October 2006 13:58
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d. howard 
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posted on 22/10/2006 14:58
You can't tell me you haven't driven across a large bridge in a Metropolitan
area and wondered how many people have jumped to their doom. You find yourself
wondering why and how and if they suffered. I'm looking forward to this movied
because I've read about it and know that it is not a snuff film but an
exploratory into the phenomenon (centuries old) of bridge suicide.
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spike-is-a-slave 
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posted on 22/10/2006 14:39
These artists are supposed to be the smartest people in the room and this is
all they can produce....What would have been a great film is if producers of
this type of art would all get together and do a mass suicide movie in which
they were all using various methods of suicide on themselves. They would rid
the world of their stupidity and accomplish real thought provoking discussion
on how a human beings can become such fools. I'd pay 10 bucks to see that.
