desper adoe on the run, but who we really empathize with as viewers. down duncanville last year, poor farmers kept you laws away from us with shotguns. you re supposed to be protecting them from us and they re protecting that don t make sense, do it? everybody knew it probably ended with a shoot-out, but they were not expecting it to end with a violent, heavy, thudding, machine gun moment. the movie lets you love bonnie and clyde. and then watch them get destroyed. [ sound of gunfire ] the french have been having deep, dark thoughts about the sociological and psychological significance of the film and its success. generally they are not very interested in what it tells about the 1930s. rather, they call it a reflection of the horror, the violence, the emptiness of the american soul today.