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.