30 years ago, a mysterious murder case in Longcheng changed the fate of the old forensic doctor Gao Sihai and the criminal police Gao Jianjian. 30 years later, a new clue suddenly appeared in the old suspect case - a skeleton was found, and The police officer Gao Feng, who was responsible for handling the case at the scene, was Gao Jianjian's son.
Directed by Chen Yuxin and starring Jing Chao, Zhang Jianning, Xi Meijuan, Tan Kai, Wu Junmei, Liu Mintao, Tang Zhenzong, etc., a criminal investigation drama "Burning", which tells the unremitting pursuit of the truth by three generations of public security police, is being broadcast in two episodes every night at 19:30 at the Oriental Theater of Oriental Satellite TV.
Chen Yuxin, who has created classic works such as "Red Spider", "National Action" and "Mekong Case", is also following "National Action" and directing the tube after 12 years. Because he had done "The Mekong Case" and "Icebreaker Operation" before, he interviewed a large number of public security officers, so from seven years ago, he began to brew the story of "Burning", which is dominated by a family of three generations of public security police.
The play not only has a large number of realistic criminal investigation elements, but also reflects a small aspect of China's judicial reform in the past 30 years. Chen Yuxin said that taking the three generations of the Gao family as an example, the key cases that affected the fate of the grandfather and father occurred in the 1980s and 1990s respectively, "The judicial environment of that year did not promote the principle of doubting guilt without error, and at the moment where Gao Feng was located, the legal principle of protecting human rights such as doubting guilt and never being equal to the law and related judicial procedures were highly valued." ”
In "Burning", different characters will face different human struggles and choices, and then change their destiny. Different from previous criminal investigation dramas, Chen Yuxin also made some innovations in the arrangement of character appearances: "Some big bosses (villains) in the play appeared early and exposed their identities. Why? I want the audience to feel the character, follow the character to choose and decide. ”
Over the years, Chen Yuxin has created a number of popular dramas involved in the case, and the intensity and tortuousness of the case are a prerequisite for the audience to love this type of drama, but he feels that the plot cannot be reversed for the sake of reversal, and more importantly, it is still detailed to portray "human nature". Chen Yuxin said that he still hopes to give the audience some inspiration through the play: "How do people face desire? A seemingly insignificant choice, a seemingly inconspicuous motive, a desire that cannot be suppressed, can all make people fall... And no matter what the reason for inflicting sin, sin is sin, and any reason for this is not valid. When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you. ”