I wanted to make a quick note of something both MBS and I noted when watching The New Land. There's a scene when Karl Oskar (Max von Sydow) is caught in a blizzard with his young son Johan on their newly acquired (and prized) Ox. The passage home is blocked and Karl Oskar is forced to cut up parts of a tree to clear the path, in the interim Johan is freezing to death. Once Karl Oskar realizes as much he decides to kill his OX and cut him open in order to warm his son up and save his life. Sound like any other scene from a 1982 film called The Empire Strikes Back?