The much-maligned film is based on the 1996 bestseller of the same name. Many students ignore the background of the group described in the book—backpackers and backpacker culture. I have never been a backpacker myself, and I don't know how many real backpackers there are in China. It's not that you carry a big bag, a sleeping bag, and a Lonely Planet in your hand to be considered a backpacker. Backpackers have no strategy, no plans, no fixed place to live, and sleep in the rough. When they are in distress, they can't even eat. Wherever they go, they stop for a while if they can find a job and earn a toll, and then continue on the road, and some stop and never leave. Most of this kind of stay is to find an ideal country - such as the inner group in the movie, the bar owner of the bad monkey in Dali, and the Whitaker classmate I know (meeting a girl). They want to go to different places, see different scenery, meet different people, and do different things that they have never done before. Tragically, Richard says in the movie, "I just feel like everyone tries to do something different, but you always wind up doing the same damn thing.
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