It's just an accidental trip: travel makes people heal, and movies make people depressed.

Movies and travel have a lot in common. Both of them are essentially transitive experiences, but they also depend largely on the personality of the experiencer. From the opening words of exploring faith and reality, Li Mengqiao's first feature film has made it clear that he will explore himself from these two angles.

If you look at it as the basic plot of an accidental trip, you will find that it has all the characteristics of absurd comedy. A young woman (Leah Dou) who doesn't know her name comes to Tibet as a pilgrim, but in fact she doesn't know why she is there. After seeing a "colored shrimp" in the restaurant of the hotel, she seemed convinced that it was a sacred creature, so she decided to send it back to China Ming Dow Lighthouse. Along the way, she met all kinds of people.

Although there are jokes in the film from time to time, the fantastic narrative will undoubtedly make those who are troubled by the identity crisis feel something. Li Mengqiao's image style may seem strange, but compared with the ultra-modern palace in the Tibetan hotel at the beginning of the story, the content of the film exploration is actually not so surreal.

Although the simple and stunning high-contrast black-and-white picture may make you yearn for Tibet, the focus of the film is the whole journey of Alice, the heroine from The Singer, in Wonderland. The characters she met included a bald man who enjoyed selling wigs, a garbage dump repairman looking for gold, some monks playing football in the desert, and a pseudo-American military organization.

Ke's clear and clean photography vividly depicts the sea of clouds and distant mountains in the background of the picture, which almost makes people feel unreal. The film is also interspersed with many flashbacks that can cause claustrophobia, revealing the protagonist's past experience and further strengthening the dreaminess of this journey. When the picture suddenly changes color at a critical moment, such as the first sight of colorful lobsters, psychedelic black scenes or rainbow-colored sky, we are like being splashed with cold water and suddenly awakened.

The English title "Bipolar" of "Just an Accidental Travel" means "Bipolar", which is really worthy of the name. This movie can really make the audience see mania and depression. In this dream journey, the protagonist is like a dream, realizing that he is dreaming and wants to wake up. Isn't this a portrayal of the mood of many people at present? Besides, Just an Accidental Travel is also the most interesting movie narrated by lobster after annie hall.