I’ve Got This Problem

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You You Hello may I please have the sugar Hello There isn't any here.

I would think you would see that I would think I would too, but I didn't Myself I don't drink any sugar Me one lump when it comes in lumps.

Otherwise one spoon.

I've known people to do that But what really upsets them are those little bags? Yeah, you never know how much is in them Yeah Look I Don't mean to bother you with my personal Never mind.

Oh No, go go on talking.

I'm listening what I mean to say is I don't mean to bother you with my personal troubles I've got this problem.

What makes you think you're bothering me? You look like a nice boy Your problems don't bother me.

You've got a problem.

I want to hear it, you know That's a very good feeling being able to discuss things with people It's a very good feeling.

It's a feeling people don't have often enough either All what I mean is that oh nowadays in this troubled world people become selfish They don't seem to care anymore about the problems of others.

I agree I Entirely agree.

It isn't that people don't try to be helpful and understanding It's just that everyone is so busy with busy work with their own troubles So so that so no one seems to be interested in other people That's a very astute observation They don't seem to care anymore for all the little things Things that make us all human or maybe even a little more than human I don't know why I said that Yeah, actually now I do and I have to promise you won't tell anyone who would I tell I Don't know but you have to I'd be embarrassed if I thought okay.

I promise Well, I Have this recurring dream It happens well Not every night, but but but very often I Don't know how to explain you don't have to I read this book.

It's perfectly normal The trouble is if you worry about it.

No, no, this is a dream That I'm at the top of this big tall building and I'm throwing confetti down at the world You're not kidding and way down on the street below.

There's this girl Actually, it's my mother and She's screaming up at me put away your roller skates.

You got roller skates No, no, that's just what she says and then the building starts swinging from side to side And I scream daddy you're shaking me off No, in fact, he isn't even there But then I get scared and I wake up Poor boy But interesting very interesting That's just the beginning though What I mean is it's indicative of my entire personality You see I've got this problem, you know, you remind me very much of my roommate.

Oh Of course my roommate is a girl.

I wasn't worried a girl like you Well, anyway, she was going with this fella.

He was very wealthy and he picked her up this one night and he asked her in this very Plain and blunt way if she would make love with him And she said no So then he asked sir if she minds whether Well, this is very difficult to say there should be no difficulty openness invites openness.

Well If she minds whether he does something for himself Well, she said she didn't mind and so he did This is not the average sort of fellow that you meet.

Oh, no, so then he took her home right away Do you know what he did? No Right then and there he asked me to go out with him.

This is not the average sort of fellow and I did oh, I Mean I gave it a great deal of thought.

He was very wealthy fellow with his beautiful Ferrari.

Well, that's very important to a girl Asking me to marry him or anything I know I shouldn't be afraid but I hesitate to ask You have nothing to fear but fear itself My father says that Did he? Oh no, with me he was a perfect gentleman I feel like to tell you this doesn't shock me in the least Naturally not In fact, I'd blush to tell you some of the worldly experiences I've had Just shut your eyes and talk fast Well You may not know this But I write you look like that kind of a boy very sensitive if you know what I mean Well, I would think that's only incidental.

I would think it's much more important to be perceptive Well, if you were perceptive enough, you would realize that is partly what I meant by sensitive Sensitivity is an all -embracing term that embraces perceptivity What kind of poetry do you write? Poetry that describes my place in the world if you understand what I mean I mean in a world of materialistic things and materialistic people an Unmaterialistic person has to constantly redefine himself Take this one poem of mine, you don't mind Hmm Indolently riding home with lap -strake eyes shining into a burning cup of fluid insomnia Look at the unending worldly wishbone of the amalgamated spiral of life Oh life and I think of the unending sagittal perfection of tiny tinkly things buried deep within the soul The essence of mummified existence real and imagined desires for death Oh death But suddenly a flash of wonderment At the space and time of a vernal equinox in view all the world with the laughter of spring renewed The world is my brother Oh Brother Oh brother You know that doesn't sound like a very worldly experience You know, I think that there is very much about you.

That's entirely childish Look, you don't have to waste your time So far as men and women are concerned Men are in many ways much more childish after a certain age it equalizes.

It is not the very wonder of it Two people alike and yet so very different.

I would think there has to be a meeting ground.

Oh It gives me chills just to think about it And at the same time to be here talking like this.

I Was thinking very much the same thing Isn't it wonderful the depths of emotion a person can experience? Yes the torment of the human soul Yes, you see kiss me.

I've got this problem

Identifier

F.2009-01-0003

Date Of Production

1966

Abstract

Traces the romantic relationship between a young man and woman (played by Klugman and Judy Harris) who meet in a downtown coffee shop; their nonstop dialogue fluctuates between playful psycho-babble and sincere attempts to relay their innermost feelings. Preserved by Chicago Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation.

Format

16mm

Extent

350 feet

Color

B&W

Sound

Optical

Reel/Tape Number

1/1

Has Been Digitized?

Yes

Language Of Materials

English

Element

Preservation answer print

Form

Amateur

Related Collections

Don Klugman Collection

Related Places

North America ➜ United States ➜ Illinois ➜ Chicago

Main Credits

Klugman, Don (is director)

Additional Credits

Shea, Mike (is contributor)

Clasky, Ron (is contributor)

Participants And Performers

Klugman, Don (is actor)

Harris, Judy (is actor)

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