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Ken Feinberg: I just want you to know that I know the fund's not perfect. There are people who just don't fit within the rules we wrote. I know that. I honestly don't know what to do.
Charles Wolf: Remember that you're not the bridge.
Ken Feinberg: Okay. Sounds like a fortune cookie.
Charles Wolf: [Chuckles] No. Katherine and I, this town that we lived in years ago in Upstate New York. Ithaca, you know? There was this gorgeous bridge. Depression-era. Beautiful. To me, beautiful. And developers wanted to knock it down because they were gonna put in an interstate. So I got on the city council, and I spent all our savings fighting for that hunk of concrete. And when they demolished it I sat around the house moping for a couple of weeks, feeling sorry for myself. And then Katherine, you know, she looked at me one day, and then she told me that.
Ken Feinberg: You're not the bridge.
Charles Wolf: It is rubble. I am not. I am still here. Fighting a new lost cause, but you know...
Ken Feinberg: Which is me, I suppose.
Charles Wolf: No. No no no. No, that's... See, I have nothing against you, Mr. Feinberg. I wanna make that clear
Charles Wolf: Remember that you're not the bridge.
Ken Feinberg: Okay. Sounds like a fortune cookie.
Charles Wolf: [Chuckles] No. Katherine and I, this town that we lived in years ago in Upstate New York. Ithaca, you know? There was this gorgeous bridge. Depression-era. Beautiful. To me, beautiful. And developers wanted to knock it down because they were gonna put in an interstate. So I got on the city council, and I spent all our savings fighting for that hunk of concrete. And when they demolished it I sat around the house moping for a couple of weeks, feeling sorry for myself. And then Katherine, you know, she looked at me one day, and then she told me that.
Ken Feinberg: You're not the bridge.
Charles Wolf: It is rubble. I am not. I am still here. Fighting a new lost cause, but you know...
Ken Feinberg: Which is me, I suppose.
Charles Wolf: No. No no no. No, that's... See, I have nothing against you, Mr. Feinberg. I wanna make that clear
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I just want you to know that I know the fund's not perfect
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There are people who just don't fit within the rules that we wrote
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I know that
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I honestly don't know
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what to do
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Remember that you're not the bridge
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Okay
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Sounds like a fortune cookie
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Katherine and I
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this town that we lived in years ago in Upstate New York
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Uh Ithaca you know Uh huh
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There was this gorgeous bridge
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Depression era Beautiful To me Beautiful
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And developers wanted to knock it down
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'cause they were gonna put in an interstate
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So I got on the city council
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and I spent two years and all of our savings
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fighting for that hunk of concrete
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And when they demolished it
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I sat around the house moping for a couple of weeks
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feeling sorry for myself
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And then Katherine
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you know she looked at me one day and she told me that
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You're not the bridge Mmm
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It is rubble
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I'm not
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I am still here
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Mmm
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Fighting a new lost cause but you know
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Which is me I suppose No No no no
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No that's See I have nothing against you Mr Feinberg
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Look I wanna make that clear
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Movie Summary
An attorney in Washington D.C. battles against cynicism, bureaucracy and politics to help the victims of 9/11.
