Smoke likes smoke and doesn't much like new technology. Paul the novelist has a computer but uses his old Smith Corona manual. Cyrus has a garage in the country that looks as if it's left over from the 1920s. The neighbourhood in Brooklyn, at the corner of 3rd and 7th, is all low-rise and built before the First World War. People in the neighbourhood mostly walk.
Smoke wears technology like an old sweater.
Every day for eleven years, Auggie has been taking a photo at the same time, eight in the morning, from the same spot, kitty-corner from the cigar shop he manages. It's his life's work. Paul flips through an album, saying they're all the same. So is the movie. Smoke is a regional film.