坦白说,《小镇大法官》是近半年来唯一追着看下来的电视剧作。我这样说,并不是因为这部剧拍得有多么吸引人,而是因为从这部剧中,我找到那种久违的又似曾相似的职业代入感。原来,那些游走于严苛律法与人情世故间的乡村基层法官,在案件的琐碎纠葛处所显露出的身影,和我们竟如此相像,没有太多区分。某种程度上,法官王德忠在荷塘镇所上演的一系列故事,差不多是每一位基层民事法官每日上演的鲜活事。剧中所塑造的主人公,是法官,或者更为准确地说是乡土中国背景下 Frankly speaking, “the town judge” is the only television drama to be chased down for the past six months. I say this not because of how appealing the show is, but because of this drama, I find the kind of long-lost and seemingly similar occupational substitution. It turned out that those grassroots judges who walked between harsh law and humankind did not make much distinction between us in the trivial disputes of the case. To a certain extent, a series of stories staged by Judge Wang Dezhong at Hawthorn Township is almost a vivid event to be staged daily by every grass-roots civil judge. The protagonist shaped by the play is a judge, or, more accurately, a native Chinese context