Sheep Without a Shepherd (2019)
Directed by Sam Quah
Li and his wife A Yu run a small business in Thailand and enjoy a happy home life with their two daughters. When their eldest daughter is violently assaulted, blackmailed and left traumatised by another student, her parents intervene, leading to a dead body which needs to be hidden, and every trace of the boy buried to cover up the accident.
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A Sheep Without a Shepherd risks being a referential exercise as it opens with a fantasy jailbreak sequence which segues into Weijie’s enthusiastic explanation of the montage technique while posters for The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and Catch Me If You Can (2002) are placed in the background at key moments.
A networking specialist whose lack of formal education is offset by his almost encyclopedic knowledge of cinema, Li Weijie (Xiao Yang) spends most of his free time in a small eatery in the village of Chanban, quoting films like The Shawshank Redemption and discussing plot elements with kindly Uncle Song (Paul Chun).
A Sheep Without a Shepherd risks being a referential exercise as it opens with a fantasy jailbreak sequence which segues into Weijie’s enthusiastic explanation of the montage technique while posters for The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and Catch Me If You Can (2002) are placed in the background at key moments.
He studies clips of Marlene Dietrich in Witness for the Prosecution to craft the perfect alibi with the same kind of genius manipulation, and studies various crime films to prepare his family for interrogation.
It’s a sharp, progressively-minded satire with sci-fi elements that would make an interesting double feature with Boots Riley’s more outrageous but similarly pissed-off Sorry To Bother You .