The mean mother-in-law of Jaquar Paw's brother was too old to bring a buyer...so they just let her go free to walk among the Mayans.
She walked along and touched her son-in-law in sadness...as Mary did with Jesus.
Now if Mel Gibson were truly into gratuitous violence, she would have been dispatched instead of let go.
---She walked along and touched her son-in-law in sadness...as Mary did with Jesus.---
Maybe church groups should be organizing to go see this thing then?
This is a part of the movie that could be discussed at length from different perspectives. The MIL was worthless at auction. Yet, just a short time before, she was part of a community and had a status, IOW a worth, in that community. She had a daughter and a SIL. She didn't appreciate her SIL and berated him because he hadn't yet produced a grandchild. And now, as he was going to his death, she touched him and in that moment, regretted that she did not appreciate what she had before. It was an apology.
You missed it, DCPatriot. The slave seller says, "No sale," and then slits her wrist. You see her walk off, lean for strength against a wall, blood starting to pool at her feet. One of the more subtle murders in the movie, but quite pertinent to Gibson's beliefs about the value of life, even the lives of those who are too old to be useful.