Richard Alleva argues that "Pulp Fiction has about as much to do with actual criminality or violence as Cyrano de Bergerac with the realities of seventeenth-century France or The Prisoner of Zenda with Balkan politics."
Richard Alleva tvrdi da "Pakleni šund sa stvarnim kriminalom ili nasiljem ima kao i Cyrano de Bergerac sa stvarnošću sedamnaestog stoljeća u Francuskoj ili The Prisoner of Zenda s politikom na Balkanu."