Raymond Carver Movie

After watching the short story movie of Carver stories, I thought that it was a bit anticlimactic.  The ending didn't really bring things together, it left some questions unanswered and there some parts that didn't have much character development.  There were other parts where things did happen but they weren't explained well enough for one that didn't read the short stories, for example, the helicopters in the beginning were a mystery to me, I had no idea how they factored into the stories and weren't explained very well.

Depiction of the short stories were there, like "Jerry and Molly and Sam" and "A small good thing" were easily seen in the movie and the story ideas were followed quite well.  In the Jerry and molly and sam story-line, the guy left the dog and was having an affair, but in the end he actually gets the dog back and he was a police officer.  In the A small good thing, boy gets hit, goes into a coma then dies, and the parents eat with the baker, but there is also the grandfather that comes and visits, which is not in the original story.  I don't know about the other story-lines though because I did not read them, and judging by how sad the two that I did, I don't plan on reading them in the future.

Besides that, I don't know what else to talk about about the movie, nothing interesting really happened that caught my attention.

Jerry and Molly and Sam

After reading Jerry and Molly and Sam, I felt a combination of sadness, confusion, anger and pity but thought it was a good overall story.  The plot and was really interesting because I thought that the main character resembled me in some instances.  I know what it feels like to be annoyed with someone or something and you just want to get away from them, but after going without that person around, you start regretting what you have done and all you want to do is beg for that person to take you back.

I felt so much sadness and for the dog, I could not believe that the guy just leaves the family dog in a neighborhood.   Even though a dog may be annoying and destructive, it's still a part of your family.  Abandoning a dog is like dropping off your kids in a bad neighborhood.  When Al dropped the dog of, I actually felt like crying.

I was confused on why Carver named the story "Jerry and Molly and Sam", you only read about those three character's once.  Sam is apparently some old neighbor, Jerry is the bartender, and Molly is someone that Al meets in the bar.  They are the least mentioned characters in the story and don't really help with the development of the story.  It is this type of title that makes me think.

I also felt anger against Al because he was a terrible person.  This guy drinks (it doesn't specify if he drinks allot), he has affairs with other women other than his wife, and lies so much.  I think that he deserves for the dog to not take his back.  Also how dare he tell his wife everything will be fine, even though he is lying.

Overall though, I liked the story, it kept me interested.