The Prisoner of Second Avenue Page #3
- PG
- Year:
- 1975
- 98 min
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Save it for winter?|They gotta throw it out sometime.
That's why they call it garbage.
l can't talk to you.|l can't talk to you anymore!
l'm a human being, same as you.
l get cold, hot. l smell garbage,|l hear noise.
You either live with it or you get out.
lf you're a human being, you reserve|the right to complain, to protest.
Give up that right, you cease to exist!
l protest against stinking garbage|and jiggling toilets!
And barking dogs! Now, shut up!|Damn it.
lf you're gonna yell at the dog,|l'm gonna go to sleep.
How are you gonna sleep|with a dog screaming like that?
Keep that dog quiet down there.|There's human beings sleeping!
-Christ almighty.|-Shut up, down there!
-We got children up here!|-Why are you yelling at me?
-Want to complain? Keep the dog company.|-Just keep it quiet.
-Will you stop it, for God's sake?|-Stop telling me to stop it!
Now, don't tell me to stop it!
l don't know what's gotten into you,|but don't take it out on me.
lf it's too much, take a room at the library!|Don't take it out on me. l'm going to sleep.
Edna.
Don't go.
Talk to me.
For a few minutes.
What is it, Mel?
l'm unraveling.|l'm losing touch.
Something is happening to me.|l'm losing control.
l can't handle anything. l--
l forgot how to work the water cooler.
l stood there with an empty cup|and water running all over my shoes.
lt's not just you.|lt's everybody.
-Everybody's feeling tensions these days.|-Oh, tension.
God, if l could feel tension.|When you're tense, you're tight.
You're holding something.|l don't know where to grab.
l'm slipping. l'm scared.
Don't talk like that.
-Now, what about seeing the analyst again?|-Dr. Pake? He's dead.
Six years of my life and $23,000.
What does he care if he gets|a heart attack?
There are other good doctors.|See someone else.
What's the use? God, l don't know|where l am or who l am.
l'm disappearing, Edna.
l don't need an analyst.|l need lost and found.
-Who could that be?|-What?
l'll get it.
Hello. Yes, this--
Yeah, this is apartment 1 4A,|and what about it?
What? l'm keeping you awake?
Who the hell do you think got me up|to get you up in the first place?
What? Don't tell me you've got a plane|to Stuttgart in the morning.
l'll talk as loud as l want!|This isn't some kind of sublet, you know.
l'm a regular, American, paying tenant!
Think l--
You bang on the wall,|you'll get a bang right back.
-lf she bangs, bang back.|-What are you starting it for?
-Will you-- Bang back.|-lt's 2:30. Leave them alone.
-They'll go to sleep.|-Will you bang back?
-lf l bang, they'll only bang back at me!|-Will you bang back?
l'll bang. l'll bang.
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