Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film A Clockwork Orange is alluded to when the Coon attacks Mosquito.

The film also alludes to the "Kung Fu" programs of the 1970s that brought Carradine to fame.

The film also alludes to the disappearance during the 1990's of several Iranian writers, who were found strangled.

The film also alluded to the British Conservative Party's New Labour, New Danger campaign.

The film, in the end also alludes to the association that helps victims of sexual violence since 2003.

The film also alludes to the story of Orpheus and Eurydice.

Released during the Phoney War, the film may have alluded to France's Maginot Line.

The film alludes to elements of the Watergate scandal and the JFK assassination.

Both the memoir and the film also allude briefly to Peter Rachman, the notorious post-war London property speculator, who Goldman is working for.

The film also slowly alludes to the fact that Iris' love for Nat had been Nat's own hallucination.