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Here Skapnartunger's ancestors had always put an end to their own lives, as soon as they became very old, that their children might be saved from maintaining them, and that they themselves come to Odin and be freed from the pains and sufferings which accompany old age and a straw-death.". Director Ari Aster told us how he packed the film with references from art history. In the painting by John Bauer, we see a … This painting directly alludes to the movie's ending, when Christian is placed inside a bear carcass and set on fire. '