- Country: China
- Genres: Comedy, Drama
- Release: 2015-11-20
- Director: Chen Jianbin
- Writers: Xuewen Hu , Chen Jianbin
- Language: Chinese
- Stars: Chen Jianbin , Jiang Qin Qin , Jin Shijia , Jin Shijia , Liu Bin , Wang Lan , Jin Shijia , Wang Xuebing , Xufeng Wang
- Runtime: 103 min
- Awards: 16 wins & 20 nominations
- AKA: A Fool (United States of America) , Yi Ge Shao Zi (Canada) , 一個勺子 (Taiwan) , A Fool (United Kingdom) , A Fool , Yi ge shao zi , 一个勺子 (China) , 一個勺子 (Hong Kong)一个勺子
- Plot:
With his directorial debut actor Chen Jianbin walks in the footsteps of A Touch of Sin, No Man’s Land, and Black Coal, Thin Ice and offers a hard-edged mainland noir where kindness and cruelty, madness and reason, greed and humanity all struggle for dominance and the fool might not be who you think . The hook here is Chen’s amazing performance as the simple, slightly crude Latioazi, a goat farmer who has a son in jail. When a young mentally handicapped man follows him home one day and enters his life, it sets off a blaze and a chain of events follows, which bares China’s class divide raw. His random act of reluctant kindness invites a parade of strangers and grifters all intent on draining Latioazi of what little he has.
- IMDB:tt3856504