Starting from a project on the portrait of laying Buddhist (Wenhai opposes the religious feeling to the chaos), “WE” leads us to meet something more, and more powerful: which are the dissidents in one word. Not the dissidents in the sense of Soviet Union, but a bunch of courageous citizens, no matter who are CCP members or not, who persist in thinking politically (and not just economically) the future of their country. All of them have got the experiences of being oppressed, of being jailed, of being harassed by the police, of being censored. All of them learned how to survive in this country, and how to continue. The original title of the film was “TAMEN”, which means “THEY”. But Wenhai knows very well that a direcor is also shooting himself while he shoots others. By calling “THEY” , he would have put a distance, the people in the film would be felt as a prudent strangers group. The final cut takes position :They are “WE”. Wenhai said modestly of his film that he has just tries to present some images of citizens. Formidable modesty helps him find a sort of courage on those poet-heroes, since it makes us see and hear the weight of the history on a “today” made up with neon lights, mobile phones, skyscrapers, and Olympic games.