As Good As It Gets. Carol's Line, "What is it you want?"
I'm enjoying English in the movie, As Good As It Gets. The scene that I love is Carol's crying in front of her mother in the kitchen.
The whole scene refers to Carol not having a man in her life and not having intimate relations with Dr. Betts and Carol is both very upset and embarrassed at discussing it with her mother:
She starts off by saying "Who needs these thoughts"?
Mom: So, what you are saying is that you're frustrated.
Mum: So... what are you saying? That you are frustrated?
Carol: Leave me be. Why are you doing this? What is it you want? I hope to get me to think everything is wrong. All that I want to do is not do that has some purpose.
Carol: Leave me be. Why are you doing this? What is it you want? I hope getting me thinking about everything that's wrong when all I want to do is not [to] do that has some purpose
I believe she missed out the word 'to' - that's the only thing I can think of that makes sense! Carole is referring what her mother is trying to do.... eg. "Are you trying to get me to think about everything that's wrong?"
All I want is to NOT do that (ie -- NOT think about everything that is wrong) and that there is some purpose in not thinking about everything that is wrong (ie that NOT thinking about everything that is wrong is just as important as thinking about everything that is wrong)
A little confusing - even for me!
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Kind regards
Paul
( Unfortunately, I can't catch perfectly the last part of the line.)
I wrote their lines watching Youtube. There might be some errors though, I love this scene. Even though there are English that I can't catch, I feel her and tear. I think she wants to say that everyone questions at some point in life what it was not supposed to become like this. It was not any purpose.