In the movie manslaughter, why bury the sheep after moving the body?

In the Bible, sheep means scapegoat. In the manslaughter, the word "sheep" appears many times, and each appearance leads the development of the plot, which is also the last chance for Li Weijie to turn around when he can't be the last thing.

Because the coffin itself is someone else's ancestral grave, digging someone else's ancestral grave is a taboo, and people must complain, but they can't act rashly for the reason of handling the case. If the body is really dug up, it will be conclusive evidence for Li Weijie, and this conclusive evidence will not be erased just because of whose ancestral grave it is. So when they opened the coffin at first, the people around them just shouted abuse, but they didn't really take action.

At the moment when the sheep appeared, some people knew that the sheep was killed by the police, so the appearance of the sheep meant that all the evidence pointed to a farce of the police. In fact, this was only the fuse, because the law was not for the people, and resentment had accumulated for a long time. If people could be diverted from their doubts through this incident, they would be conducive to their moral invincible position.

At the same time, because Li Weijie once witnessed the police chief abusing lynching, he deeply understood that the law was useless. In order to protect his daughter and his family, his own incident was caused by the police chief's son's misconduct. In order to prevent his daughter from being accused of worldly harm, it is also protective to transfer the body and replace it with a sheep.

Li Weijie's behavior can be said to be intelligent, or witty. In terms of transferring hatred, it is indeed comparable to detective novels, interlocking and skillfully connected. However, the only failure of the film is probably that Li Weijie chose to surrender in the end, only after the police system was improved. Perhaps it is to show his conscience, perhaps to promote a society where the rule of law is supreme, but as a planner of everything, it is actually unnecessary, because the real story has quietly ended when public anger broke out.

The many appearances of this movie "Sheep" all represent different meanings, and it is very clever when combined with the plot of the movie. Interested friends can go and see it.