The Virgin Spring and The Passion of Jesus Christ

After watching The Virgin Spring, I could not get out of my mind one particular image from the end of the film. The image struck me as so familiar, even though I had never seen this film before. I stopped the movie after this sequence so that I could really pinpoint why the image was so striking, and it immediately came to me.

Is not this image from The Virgin Spring an exact
identical of the following
images?

Karin's parents holding her  in The Virgin Spring

In comparing The Virgin Spring to these images of Jesus Christ and the Blessed Mother after His crucifixion, I start to wonder if perhaps the characters in this film could represent these historically important icons. Jesus Christ in essence was crucified to save humanity from sin and despair. He became the sacrifice for humanity. He became the victim of choice because the people needed someone to blame. As Rene Girard says in Violence and the Sacred, "society is seeking to deflect upon a relatively indifferent victim, a 'sacrificial' victim, the violence that would otherwise be vented on its own members, the people it most desires to protect." The people searched for a scapegoat and found Jesus Christ. 

Could Karin, then, possibly be representation of Jesus Christ? Is Karin, in some way a sort of sacrifice? And if so, then for whom? Perhaps she was the sacrifice that needed to be made in order to somehow save Ingeri from her past and from her future evil deeds. Ingeri, in a way raped and murdered Karin herself, by not intervening when she had the opportunity. Ingeri was heavily portrayed as the devil or the profane, wheras Karin was Jesus, and the sacred. Ingeri found an outlet for her violence and her vengeance through the death and sacrifice of her step-sister, Karin.