The fatal grandeur of the Golden Gate Bridge.
By Tad Friend
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Shortly after ten-thirty in the morning on Wednesday, March 19th, a real-estate agent named Paul Alarab began hiking across the Golden Gate Bridge. Midway along the walkway, which carries pedestrians and cyclists between San Francisco and Marin County, he stopped and climbed the four-foot safety railing. Then he lowered himself carefully onto the bridge’s outermost reach, a thirty-two-inch-wide beam known as “the chord.” It is on the chord, two hundred and twenty feet above San Francisco Bay, that people intending to kill themselves often pause. On a sunny day, as this day was, the view is glorious: Angel Island to the left, Alcatraz straight ahead, Treasure Island farther off, bisecting the long gray tang…
這是一部關(guān)于死亡的記錄片。我寧愿把它看做關(guān)于重生。
導(dǎo)演歷時(shí)一年用攝影機(jī)記錄下了來到金門大橋的各色人等。這里是全美國最著名的自殺圣地，也許是因?yàn)轱L(fēng)景這邊獨(dú)好，也許是因?yàn)榈乩砦恢脙?yōu)越，總之，如織的過客間，總穿梭著那么幾個(gè)遠(yuǎn)道而來自殺的。有的人翻過圍欄直接往下跳，有點(diǎn)人猶豫不決，被路人救下；有的人往下跳的一刻，忽然不想死了，奮力自救。
通過這部影片，你會(huì)看到最接近死亡的一刻，看到金光閃閃的大橋下的蕓蕓眾生。我也看到了蕓蕓眾生的前世今生，感覺到生命不能不結(jié)束的千萬個(gè)理由，和那些多么盼望延續(xù)的自殺者的眼神。
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我找這個(gè)電影找了兩年了。。。誰有。碟片。。。幫忙一下
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金門大橋：幫幫忙…………
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