His films also typically end with a death, which is portrayed not as a tragedy, but as a happy moving on where the deceased looks down happily at the world below. "Between Heaven and Earth" ends with a birth, but it is similarly handled the passing of a character into a new world. This pattern is continued in "Mr. Nobody", where two deaths open the film and a unique twist on death at the end of the film conveys a wistful sense of happiness.