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The first TV drama in China with the theme of cracking down on new types of cybercrime by the procuratorial organs, "Public Prosecution", has long held the top spot in real-time ratings on various platforms and the top 1 in public opinion popularity on multiple platforms since its premiere. On the 14th, the drama seminar was held in Beijing.
The Public Prosecution selects the top ten typical cases of new types of cybercrime released by the Supreme People's Procuratorate as original materials. Starting from the organization's assignment of prosecutor An Ni from the People's Procuratorate of Jiangcheng City to gather important evidence of criminal groups overseas with undercover police officer Zhang Wanru, it tells the exciting story of prosecutor An Ni and the captain of the criminal police, He Luyuan, working together with colleagues from the Fourth Procuratorate Department to actively play various prosecutorial functions, successfully handling new types of cybercrime cases such as online fraud, online gambling, and online violence, and bringing hidden cybercriminals at home and abroad to court one by one.
Ding Haidong, Deputy Director of the News Office of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, stated that in recent years, cybercrime has shown a high incidence trend. Among them, information network crime has grown rapidly, with the majority of elderly care fraud crimes and obvious characteristics of transnational organized crime. Cybercrime involves a wide range of living areas, multiple levels, and high levels of harm. Cyberfraud crimes are becoming more corporate, professional, and professional. The increasingly intelligent means of crime have formed a criminal industry chain, and the people are suffering greatly from the harm of crime. The topic selection of "Public Prosecution" is close to life, reality, and audience, which is the most important reason why the drama is widely loved by audiences. It also fully demonstrates that the concern and attention of the people are the best entry point for procuratorial film and television creation.
The chief screenwriter of the drama, Chen Fujun, stated that the creative theme and inspiration for this drama all come from the hot life of the prosecution and the fate stories of each party involved in the case. At the beginning of the creation, the screenwriting team selected 20 typical cases from over 100 real cases to enter the creative perspective, and finally selected 10 typical cases to integrate into 40 TV dramas.
In the narration of the "7.23 Project", 10 typical cases connected to the main storyline are interspersed, and 9 hot legal issues are integrated. The relationship between idol dramas and industry dramas, crime dramas and emotional dramas, as well as between procuratorial dramas and legal dramas, is well grasped, shaping the typical image of political and legal police officers in the new era represented by prosecutor An Ni and criminal police officer He Luyuan.
Feng Lei, the actor of "Guo Hongjiang" in the drama, shared his gains from playing a "warm-hearted" justice prosecutor, believing that the drama presents a visual representation of legal knowledge closely related to the public and has good social benefits. The actor Gao Xin of "Zhao Jikai" said that the drama has achieved good results in respecting reality, expressing true emotions and feelings, and shaping real characters with flesh and blood.
Yi Kai, Secretary General of the China Television Arts Council, said, "The explosion of this drama was expected. It is too close to our lives, and cybercrime is actually around us."
Zhang Jianwei, an expert advisory committee member of the Supreme People's Procuratorate and a professor at the Law School of Tsinghua University, stated that "Public Prosecution" is the latest masterpiece in the field of prosecution that has attracted social attention. This type of work may have facial expressions, formulaic stories, and similar plots, but as long as the plot is attractive enough, it can still receive positive reviews.
He believes that such works should place more emphasis on their recording function. The Public Prosecution focuses on crimes in new fields, rooted in the real situation of crimes, and provides a relatively realistic description of these situations, as well as recording the development and changes of the rule of law in China over the years. At the same time, the portrayal of prosecutors demonstrates the progress made by the procuratorial organs over the years.
Li Shengli, Director and Professor of the Department of Literature at the School of Drama, Film and Television, Communication University of China, praised this drama with "standing tall and upright". He said that "standing on the ground" refers to grounded air, and "zenith" refers to height. The drama is in line with a grand theme, with strong contemporaneity, real case combinations, and vivid portraits of prosecutors. It comprehensively showcases the functional positioning of the procuratorial organs in strengthening legal supervision and upholding fairness and justice for the people. It vividly portrays the professional spirit of the people's prosecutors, who are loyal to the people and fair and honest, and deeply interprets the belief, concept, and power of the rule of law.