The Strategy of the Snail

Although Jimeno had envisioned the movie several years before it was screenwriter and actor Humberto Dorado who finally shaped it into a dense 400 pages screenplay, that eventually became the original screenplay and a blueprint for the film. Later after the majority of it was filmed, screenwriter Jorge Goldenberg came as an editing consultant and restructured the film, but it was not only until Nobel Prize Gabriel García Márquez saw the pilot of the film and encouraged Sergio Cabrera to continue with the making of the film. Because of budget problems and the lack of support of the Colombian government the film took four years to be fully completed . In fact by the time the Colombian government was actually shutting down the cultural organizations that supported filmmakers such as Focine.

In a conversation between Jacinto and "El Perro" Romero, Jacinto says it's Friday in Bogotá (Colombia) and in Spain as well. But the conversation seems to take place at night. There is a time difference of 6 hours (7 in summer) between Colombia (GMT-5) and Spain (GMT+1) If it's Friday night in Colombia, it would already be Saturday morning in Spain.