From the striking open credits, where we see a group of giggling children torturing a pair of scorpions with a swarm of angry ants, it’s clear that “The Wild Bunch” is a movie on a mission.
There is no innocence left in this bug-eat-bug world, it says right off the bat, and the gleeful nastiness of the kids foreshadows the notorious shootouts that will follow.Sam Peckinpah’s bleak, elegiac film hit theaters in June 1969, around the height of the Vietnam War.
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