Plus, there's an aside about Valeria's small dog, lost beneath the couple's apartment floor and possibly eaten by rats. Nothing too serious. Not only for the gritty Latino flavor shared by both films, but for how each assembles a cultural panoramic versus a base humanist story of how strangers interact. And unfortunately, the answer is generally no.
Nothing proposed on screen is a stretch, nor easy to dismiss as fluffy Hollywood nonsense.
It is a movie worth our attention, as it is a fine example of non-sequential storytelling that betters Tarantino's similar work.