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The Bridge (2006)
Probably 3% of the San Francisco Bay area suicides are from the Golden Gate bridge
This is a fascinating, sad movie.
But I think when watching it something should be kept in mind.
The San Francisco Bay area has a population of 7.2 million people. This means there are probably about 800 suicides a year there based on average U.S. statistics (There are some 30,000 suicides in the U.S. each year, versus 18,000 homicides).
That 25 or so of those suicides involved jumping from the Golden Gate bridge is... about 3% of the likely total suicides in the area.
I think watching this movie without keeping that 800 to 25 ratio in mind may give the wrong impression; that this beautiful structure is drawing people to their doom like lemmings; that everybody in the Bay Area who commits suicide jumps off the bridge.
Just isn't the case; the Golden Gate suicides are a tiny fraction of the suicides that take place in the area each year.
So there is another side to it when the city is reluctant to put up higher barricades along the pedestrian walkways, etc.
Also, just for example, in 2005, for total U.S. statistics on suicide: 52.1% firearms 22.2% hanging/strangulation/suffocation 17.6% poisons 8.1% all other methods
So if the San Francisco Bay area holds true for this, those 25 or so suicides off the Bridge would be in that 8.1% All Other Methods category, less than half of that.
Sweating Bullets (1991)
Sandy
I remember watching this late night in college, along with that vampire-cop show, FOREVER KNIGHT.
But there was something odd about SWEATING BULLETS that I could never quite put my finger on. The show was set in Florida, but it didn't look like Florida. It was much... sandier. There seemed to be a whole lot of beach, but not much ocean. And the foliage also seemed strange for Florida.
Later I found out that apparently the show started out being filmed in Mexico, but later seasons were filmed in Israel!
Mystery solved!