[Children are often seen throughout the film witnessing - and then participating in - the violence.] Peckinpah""s metaphoric symbolism foreshadows the blood-red, capricious treatment he members of the Wild Bunch (the scorpions) will soon receive in he small Texan town by an opposing ambush of bounty hunters and amassed Mexicans (the ants).Make her feel at home.After all, we""re all one big family here." But he resolves to return to reading the boring manuscript he has brought home: "Man and the Unconscious," written by psychiatrist Dr.His father rushed over with reprimands: "What are you doing? Stop it!"The Dinner Table Bible-Reading Session:The next scene was a tense Bible-reading session at he dinner table, filmed with a disorienting tilt (in cinematic erms, a "dutch angle") to show the unbalanced nature of the relationship between father and son." In a mirror""s reflection, she saw herself transformed into her more beautiful sister Susan.She fantasized or envisioned herself at an outdoor garden party with Peter and Edmund escorting her for a photograph.The natives are rounded up and herded off as forced soldiers or slave laborers.A distraught Rose helplessly watches as her shattered, fragile older brother deliriously suffers a fever and nervous breakdown.