Anti-drama film is a poem of light and shadow, which fully shows the disorderly truth.

Roadside Picnic tells the story of two doctors living like ghosts in a foggy clinic in Kaili County, a mysterious and humid subtropical country in southeastern Guizhou. For the sake of his mother's last wish, Bobby Chen set foot on the train to find the child abandoned by his brother; Another lonely old woman asked him to bring a photo, a shirt and a tape to her seriously ill old lover. On the way to zhenyuan county, Bobby Chen came to a place called Dangmai. The time here is not linear, and people's lives complement each other and dissolve each other. He seems to have experienced the past, present and future, rethinking his life. Finally, Bobby Chen went to Zhenyuan and just looked at the child from a distance with a telescope. Gave the old woman's token to her old lover's son. A man stepped on the train again. I can't tell whether this world is my memory or my fantasy about this world.

This is a standard anti-drama movie, which is different from the big drama movies we usually watch. Although the protagonist has his own desires, the development of the story is not as ups and downs as you think, which makes you feel the pleasure of the story climax.

If Wong Kar-wai's anti-drama film is synonymous with gorgeousness, then this roadside picnic is as simple as Jia's Xiao Wu and the Platform.

The characters in the roadside picnic are like ghosts floating in this world, but we have to admit that every day of our lives is spent in such a state.

In the film, the Kaili dialect, the grounded performances of the actors, the humid environment and the old and simple furniture all reveal the truth of life.

Nonlinear narration and disorderly scene change seem to put us in a dream. However, isn't this the real life track of everyone? In the interweaving of dreams and reality, we perceive the flow and stillness of life and experience the surge and tranquility of emotions.

The hero met Mo's young man briefly on the way to find his nephew, but witnessed his hope of pursuing a girl from rejection to acceptance. Only when we parted did he know that the young man had the same name as his nephew. In a flash, your consciousness rampaged in the time and space of film construction and began to wander inside, which may be the director's original intention.

Bobby Chen was here, too. He saw a woman who was very similar to her dead girlfriend. She inexplicably approached him and proposed to him-poured out her repressed feelings, sang the love songs she learned in prison and gave her a tape. However, his behavior frightened the woman, but he was relieved and turned to continue on his way, that's all.

Seemingly absurd, it is the life experience of each of us. Occasionally, we meet a person who is familiar, has the same name, looks similar, or has the same temperament, which stimulates our cerebral cortex and reminds us of another person in another time and space.

The scene of roadside picnic is realistic, aesthetic and poetic. Even if it is an empty mirror without plot and dialogue, the poems written by Bobby Chen, the protagonist, are pale and lack of passion, expressing another kind of life that is not passionate enough, which is the most authentic freehand brushwork.

Although there are two cuts in the 40-minute long shot of hype, it does not affect the boring but long-awaited life, sometimes sober and sometimes confused.

Anti-plot movies, which deliberately disrupt the orderly story, are hard to understand in form, but they express the truth of life like poems and write indifferent and ordinary years like songs.