Taking "on the road" as a clue, the rural movie Crossing the Border‐Zhaoguan contrasts the city from the perspective of the countryside, expressing life and death. On the one hand, the film presents the rural landscape through the visual form of returning to the original nature and extends the possibilities of the rural landscape. On the other hand, the narrative of film abandons the commercial logic of rebellion, sensationalism, and flow. Instead, it romanticizes the propositions of generations, life and death, and good and evil in the film, and responds with simple expressions to the ethical thinking of major propositions.