Excellent question:
Because of the ABCs Game I have dictionary.commed so many words this year, so why not one more:
Pity - sympathetic or kindly sorrow evoked by the suffering, distress, or misfortune of another, often leading one to give relief or aid or to show mercy
I think I feel pity for every character in the movie, even Aguirre (flicking his magazine pages and saying he has no jobs for rose stemmers), even Jimbo (unable to share a beer with a lone man). And definitely for all the people inside the Del Mar and Twist families.
I think what is pitiful is the family structure, so rigid and dominant.
It has become so easy to say what is right in a family that we have lost sight of what is wrong in a family. A man, a woman and children make it RIGHT. Love, respect and decency towards everyone seems to have gone out the window.
I pity the family members most, and the ones who need real affection more are the larger victims here. Bobby will grow up to be like his grandfather. Lureen is like her mother. The transmission of shallow family values is the pitiful theme here, in my opinion.
It is so pitiful that you cannot give relief or aid or show mercy to these people.