Hi Everyone
Happy Friday night, it's boring and lonely being at home. But I had a bath and washed my hair. I have scalp issues where I am picking a lot because of dermatitis. I won't let it heal and its so annoying.
Yesterday I watched The Sheep Detectives. I'm trying to process how I feel about it, so I will give it a review, and hope I don't spoil anything for anyone.
The sheep are CGI and have human voices. It seems to be set in UK. Hugh Jackman is a very strong and handsome shepherd who makes money by selling wool from what seems to be 20 sheep.
Anyway, the story goes, he had twin kids with a woman called Lily. But she died in childbirth (tragedy) and the twin kids were adopted out due to he couldn't look after them at the time (too young, immature)
His favourite sheep is called Lily and she has to convince the local policeman to help her solve the case of George (Hugh Jackman's) death.
I'm a bit bewildered by the movie. It's anti-meat pro vegetarian. It's such a complicated movie. I'm not sure any kids would enjoy the movie. It's a very 15 year old kind of movie.
It talks about sheep being part of a flock and to belong to each other. It talks about so many things. But the thing that stuck with me was the pain of remembering sad and upsetting memories.
The sheep have a trick where anything unpleasant can be forgotten through a 1-2-3 trick where on the count of three they can choose to forget things that have happened.
Only one sheep can't do it, and he remembers everything and is said to have 'wisdom'. I feel pain too remembering all the things that happen in the world. I feel weighed down by remembering. And I feel weighed down thinking about bad things that might happen in the future, e.g. getting old, my own eventual death.
I feel navigating life overwhelming. So this movie sort of consolidated that. I wish I had a good shepherd.
