An escape or exile marked by loneliness and alienation, a journey undertaken in the search for self. Besides extreme forms of expression endowed by the director, such as killing and plunder, there may not be many bizarre plots, and this is also the true journey.
As many people criticized, this film indeed has a strong suspicion of being an automobile advertisement. The predestined destination in the film "Yili" really made me think of Yili (a Chinese dairy product brand). Although it is difficult to avoid commercial compromises in films, I personally feel that the director handled this aspect quite well, and Wan Xiaoli's singing is the best proof. Half of the life of a road movie lies in its music, and Wan Xiaoli's songs make "Over the Border" full of power, which is the director's achievement, no doubt about it.
In Hai Zi's poetry, it is written: "I have three tribulations: wandering, love, survival." And "Over the Border" tells exactly a story about wandering, love, and survival, regardless of whether this story is narrated perfectly or meets your imagination.