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Gérard Camy’s thesis is that the violence in The Wild Bunch expresses the director’s pessimistic view of unredeemed (and potentially unredeemable) human nature. The film’s shootouts—raw, seemingly unmediated—are indicative of a societal breakdown of not just restraint but norms.