Sheep Without a Shepherd (2019)

When his eldest daughter accidentally kills police chief Joan Chen’s son, a boy who had sexually assaulted and then blackmailed her, internet technician Yang Xiao uses his knowledge from watching more than a thousand films to concoct an alibi for his entire family. It’s a bit slow to get started, but once it did, there is a lot to love in this film. So often in films, people make stupid decisions to further a plot, but here the decisions are craftily executed with Yang using the police’s low expectations of him to his advantage. If only I could be so smart to use my film knowledge should I ever get in a predicament to require such. I didn’t love the ending, but it still made logic sense with the characterizations portrayed. I’m looking forward to seeing the original Indian film this was adapted from, but I want to digest this one a bit longer before that undertaking.