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What do you think she meant when she said “a huge black monster with giant claws”?
What do you think she meant when she said “a huge black monster with giant claws”?
The Bridge’s arguably noble intentions are obscured by the shocking footage of suicides off the Golden Gate Bridge. Almost each of these is handled with pornographic suspense: we’ll see a figure from a distance, pacing anxiously around his preferred departure, before he finally mounts the red siding. It’s dishonorable that a film so ostensibly sympathetic contrives suspense from the despair of others. This is especially true of one individual, a tall, waifish man in black with long hair, whose figure is returned to at intervals, before his own elaborate jump – backwards, with arms outstretched – will be the climax at the very end of the film.
by Rumsey Taylor | Source: IFC
20 Jun 2007 4:29 PM | Submit Comment
