Abstract: Community aesthetics, a reflection of aesthetic emphasis on community vision, is not monolithic, but multi-dimensional in social, national and humanity respects. These dimensions are not only reflected in the development trend of domestic films in recent years, but also present complicated hierarchy and relationships inside community aesthetics. Although the films primarily featuring the vision of national community are dedicated to individual-state connections through community aesthetics, the triggering effect of social empathy plays a decisive role. On the other hand, although the films emphasizing the vision of social community can arouse the audience’s empathy by presenting images of social problems, they are often in tensions with the vision of national community. For those films with global community of shared future as the central theme which are a new trend of community aesthetics, despite their success in employing Chinese experience to tell the grand narrative of the shared future of mankind in good coordination with the vision of the national community, weak links with the vision of social community have been inadvertently exposed. Therefore, how to coordinate multidimensional visions within the community aesthetics so as to achieve the greatest cohesion is still a direction deserving great consideration nowadays in advancing community aesthetics.

Key words:  community aesthetics, vision of the social community, vision of the national community, vision of global community of shared future