My Winnipeg and Dubliners

I don't know if I'm just some literature geek who looks too far into things, but did anyone notice a connection between this movie and James Joyce's Dubliners?

The most important example is the beginning, where Maddin repeats himself about the Forks, the Red, and Assiniboine. These three things establish the themes of the rest of the movie, much like paralysis, simony, and the euclid of the gnomon that Joyce mentions in the first story of Dubliners.

Other than that, the style seemed somewhat similar and the snowing motif matched the last story of Dubliners, "The Dead."

What do you think?