On Sept 30 hundreds of people attended the premiere(首映) of the movie My People, My Country at a Los Angeles cinema. (wave) Chinese flags in their hands, the audience sang My People, My Country, its theme song, together at the start of the film. The song is a patriotic(爱国的) Chinese classic, is known in every household. It was (original) performed by the singer Li Guyi in 1985 and was reworked for the movie by the pop singer Faye Wong.
The film consists of seven short stories from seven directors and make use of nation's greatest technological and cultural (achieve). instead of focusing on the historic moments themselves, the film show these events through the eyes of ordinary people who devoted themselves to or (affect) by them. The short story, The Guiding Star, for example, follows a pair of brothers. They (see) the landing of the capsule of the Shenzhou Ⅺ manned spacecraft on Nov 18, 2016 in Inner Mongolia and were full pride and hope at that moment. "If a person meets a historic opportunity to be changed, the (inspire) power is unbelievable," Chen Kaige told China. Org. cn. "In my story, the landing of the Shenzhou Ⅺ changed the lives of two teenagers, changed their fate and allowed (they) to gain new hope."