Wild Bunch Response

Having the opening scene of The Wild Bunch as a bank robbery, while bounty hunters assume the position for the awaited shootout, demonstrates that the movie is about this group of aging outlaws who are nearing their end in a world as they once knew it; the shootout symbolizes "their West" is over. A definite distinction is presented between the Old West, displayed by the Wild Bunch, and the New West, displayed by the congregation of towns people and permanent town they preside in.
Beyond the message set by the opening scene, I found many elements of the movie so far to be frivolous. The image of the little boy and girl hugging in the midst of the shootout was just dumb. In real life, those little children would have ran and joined their other friends hiding behind the building, not just stand in the middle of the street holding each other. Another scene that I found silly was when the Mexican in the Wild Bunch shoots his ex-girlfriend for kissing another man. The fact that shooting the girl was the ice breaker to getting invited inside for dinner was unreal.
I'm anxious to see where the movie is going, plot wise, because I've had trouble following all the jumping around and mumbling. Hopefully it gets better.