They way they all cry, even the men, and the babies reach out. When the unicorn is caged, with a fake horn to deceive the mortals who can't see what she really is, and the villagers see her.The themes the characters discuss also evoke depressing imagery, such as depression, lost love, memory loss, regret, resentment towards the past.You better have tissues to last the whole film. Everything about the film be it the music, the dialogue, or the characters, is surrounded by an air of melancholy and nostalgia.
note Robin Hood, despite being a fictional character, affects people more than Cully's band, a bunch of nobodies, do. Molly even states that Robin is reality while Cully and his men are the fairy tale. Because we can't all be a hero or a unicorn. When Cully's band chases Robin and Marian and the Merry Men into the woods, even though they know it's only a mirage there's something about that ragged bunch of bullies and cowards believing so completely in an ideal that couldn't be farther from their reality.When Schmendrick informs Molly that she's the last unicorn, Molly bitterly snarks, "It would be the last unicorn in the world to come to Molly Grue." It gets sadder the older you get, and the more you understand."When you've been waiting to see a unicorn as long as I have." I forgive you." Then there's Molly's response to Schmendrick asking how she can see the Unicorn. In an unspoken moment, she bows her head and Molly whispers, "That's all right. Schmendrick is annoyed that Molly would berate a mystical creature like this, but the Unicorn understands completely.Molly: (laughs bitterly) And where were you ten years ago? Twenty? Where were you when I was new? When I was one of those innocent young maidens you always come to? How dare you.how dare you come to me now, when I am this?!
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