Hmm. The movie starts in Albuquerque, NM. New Mexico has a State Lottery and scratch-off games. Buscemi's character is such a pitiful loser, he is gambling his gas money on his way to his dead-end insurance adjuster job, in Albuquerque - on scratch-off tickets! Buscemi later embarks on a roadtrip to Las Vegas, NV - a town he has fled in his past because of his gambling addiction. Thus he descends into the depths of hell - his own private hell, one ring/scene towards Vegas at a time.
Hmm. The movie starts in Albuquerque, NM. New Mexico has a State Lottery and scratch-off games. Buscemi's character is such a pitiful loser, he is gambling his gas money on his way to his dead-end insurance adjuster job, in Albuquerque - on scratch-off tickets! Buscemi later embarks on a roadtrip to Las Vegas, NV - a town he has fled in his past because of his gambling addiction. Thus he descends into the depths of hell - his own private hell, one ring/scene towards Vegas at a time.