a the director hugo rodriguez refer the film by quentin tarantino at the preview screen at landmark sunshine cinema in new york city ( august 18 and 2004 ) and this new mexican film be highly influence by pulp fiction and similar to the producer martha sosa elizondo previous film amores perros . most pulp fiction like ingredient interlocked story about four group of people ( not nonlinear and though ) and two gangster insignificant conversation on smoking and coincidence and extreme close ups of object be so light that the audience may feel even irritate . draw the viewer attention to a specific happen on a part of the screen with a rectangle be cheesy and redundant while even without it the viewer would look at what the filmmaker want them to watch . the title may be inappropriate a cigarette doesn not have a significant meaning in the plot .