Whenever I listen to this song, I'm reminded of the documentary called "The Bridge", which discussed people committing suicide by jumping off The Golden Gate Bridge.
A film crew set up cameras for 365 days, filming people walking over the bridge, and zooming in on people who were obviously there only to jump to their deaths. The film makers would then talk to the families/friends of the dead and discuss what led to their demise.
The documentary is fascinating, macabre and powerful. The filmmakers had the best intentions at heart - to raise awareness and to lobby for the installation of security fencing on the bridge and prevent more suicides.
I strongly recommend watching it, if you haven't seen it.
...but listening to this song you can't help but think that the filmmakers perhaps could have also done something to save those people they filmed jumping, instead of idly standing there on the shoreline, camera in hand.
You also can't help but think that maybe, just maybe, in the interests of making the film as dramatic as possible, the filmmakers were watching the victims through the viewfinder, and uttering under their breaths: "spring".
Whenever I listen to this song, I'm reminded of the documentary called "The Bridge", which discussed people committing suicide by jumping off The Golden Gate Bridge.
A film crew set up cameras for 365 days, filming people walking over the bridge, and zooming in on people who were obviously there only to jump to their deaths. The film makers would then talk to the families/friends of the dead and discuss what led to their demise.
The documentary is fascinating, macabre and powerful. The filmmakers had the best intentions at heart - to raise awareness and to lobby for the installation of security fencing on the bridge and prevent more suicides.
I strongly recommend watching it, if you haven't seen it.
...but listening to this song you can't help but think that the filmmakers perhaps could have also done something to save those people they filmed jumping, instead of idly standing there on the shoreline, camera in hand.
You also can't help but think that maybe, just maybe, in the interests of making the film as dramatic as possible, the filmmakers were watching the victims through the viewfinder, and uttering under their breaths: "spring".