Starting from March 18, the TV series "Yellow Bird" will be broadcast simultaneously on CCTV-8 prime time and iQiyi. "Yellow Bird" is set at Licheng Railway Station in 2004 and uses a group portrait narrative method to tell the story of Guo Pengfei, a policeman from the north, who went south to perform anti-pickpocketing tasks and fought wits and courage with various thieves. During this period, he met doctor Li Xiaolian, and the two worked together to unravel the truth. As the investigation deepened, major cases such as explosions, armed wounding, armored car robbery, and murder surfaced one after another, gradually revealing the story of the huge criminal conspiracy behind it.
The Yellow Bird releases its poster
The director of this drama is Lu Lunchang, who has directed the highly rated drama "Rival", and the screenwriter is Wang Xiaoqiang, whose representative works include "County Party Committee Compound", "Rival", "Mask", etc. In the starring lineup, Guo Jingfei plays the male No. 1 Guo Pengfei, Qin Lan plays the female No. 1 Li Xiaolian, Zu Feng plays the villain "Foye", and there are also powerful actors such as Chen Jingke, Guo Keyu, Wang Haoxin, Lv Xiaolin, You Yong, Fang Zibin, Jiang David, and He Landou. This is also the second collaboration between Lu Lunchang, Wang Xiaoqiang, and Guo Jingfei after "Rival".
In many domestic and foreign TV dramas, the theme of "theft" is mostly treated as "chivalrous thieves" or "super thieves", with the main focus on showing the thieves' superb skills and exciting adventures. However, the theme of "anti-pickpocketing" is a branch of Chinese police and gangster dramas, and also reflects the social problem of rampant thieves around the millennium. As "Yellow Bird" is broadcast, we can review several past "anti-pickpocketing" TV dramas.
The TV series "Female Anti-Pickpocket Team", which premiered in 1999, was directed by Zhou Yu and written by Huang Guoshu and Chen Chunshan. It tells the story of the female anti-pickpocket team formed by the Public Security Bureau. In reality, according to the reporter's understanding, there were indeed many female anti-pickpocket police officers. The difficulty of anti-pickpocket work is that thieves must be caught in the act, and female police officers in plain clothes can more easily make thieves relax their vigilance; secondly, there were many children and teenagers among the thieves at that time, and female police officers were usually better at communication and education.
Poster of "Women's Anti-Pickpocket Team"
The TV series "Police Catching Thief" aired in 2004 was directed by Zhang Guoqing, written by Fang Yulong and Qin Zhixin, and starred by Zhang Zhizhong, Xi Meijuan and others. The play tells the story of the theft of the Ming Dynasty Chenghua Doucai Cup in Wuzhou Museum, and the police locked in the wanted criminal "Flying Squirrel" as the suspect. However, the national treasure has been replaced by a pickpocket, and the police chief urgently summoned anti-pickpocket expert Chang Qingshan to intervene in the investigation in order to clear the fog and recover the authentic item.
Poster of "Police Catch Thief"
The most familiar anti-pickpocketing work to the general public should be the movie A World Without Thieves directed by Feng Xiaogang. The film is adapted from Zhao Benfu's novel of the same name, telling the story of a pair of pickpocket partners who fought a series of open and covert battles with another pickpocket gang on a train in order to realize the wish of a migrant worker named Sha Gen to make the world a world without thieves.
Poster of A World Without Thieves
Most of these works were created around the millennium, when elders would remind people to be vigilant and keep their belongings when they went out. Today, many people seem to be able to leave their phones and computers in public for a few minutes without any psychological burden. This was unimaginable 20 years ago. Where does the sense of security come from? It comes from the society's comprehensive surveillance system and the years of hard work of the people's police, as well as from the progress of society, the improvement of quality, and the happiness of people living and working in peace and contentment. At this moment, looking back on the past history from "The Yellow Bird" may make us marvel at the changes that have happened unconsciously, and also make us cherish the current life full of security and trust in society.
