《私人訂製》帶給人們的是驚喜還是意外

“What you don’t dare imagine, we dare to do.” The slogan of Personal Tailor, Feng Xiaogang’s latest comedy project, not only introduces the film’s basic idea of “living a dream”, it also expresses the director’s ambition.

“你不敢想的,我們敢做。”作爲馮小剛最新喜劇力作《私人訂製》中的一句口號，這句話不僅道出了該片的“造夢”主題，同時也彰顯了馮導的野心。

Compared with his historical epics, such as Back to 1942 and Aftershock, which, to me, looked impressive but lacked a certain edge, I prefer Feng’s more satirical and humorous works that made him famous to begin with.

相對於他執導的《一九四二》以及《唐山大地震》等歷史題材電影而言，我更喜歡馮導最擅長的“老本行”——諷刺和幽默，儘管前者尚屬佳作，但卻並非獨樹一幟。

In that context, Personal Tailor took me back to an earlier Feng. The ingenious premise involves a small group of four people — Yang Zhong (Ge You), the “director of dreams” and his resourceful employees Miss Bai (Bai Baihe), the “fantastician” who designs dream scenarios, Lu Xiaolu (Li Xiaolu), the “caterer of whims”; and Ma Qing (Zheng Kai), the “spiritual anesthetist”.

在這一點上，《私人訂製》將我帶回到馮小剛的早期時代。影片立意巧妙，圍繞願望規劃師楊重（葛優飾）及其“員工智囊團”——“情境設計師”小白（白百何飾）、“夢境重建師”小璐（李小璐飾）與“心靈麻醉師”馬青（鄭愷飾）組成的公司展開。

For all their elaborate titles, however, they’re essentially members of a high-concept company, which provides regular — and wealthy — clients with a taste of the lives they have always wanted.

儘管他們的名號有些複雜，但本質上都是一家幫平民和富人圓夢的概念公司的成員，該公司的目標是讓客戶體驗到夢寐以求的生活。

In a series of separate segments, the team comes to the aid of a chauffeur (Fan Wei) who yearns for a taste of power, a “vulgar” film director (Li Chengru) who wants to become a high-culture artist, and a middle-class woman (Song Dandan) who dreams of becoming a billionaire.

片中分爲幾個獨立章節，這支“圓夢四人組”分別對渴望權力的司機（範偉飾）、立志追求高雅藝術卻俗不可耐的電影導演（李成儒飾）以及夢想成爲富人的“中產姐”（宋丹丹飾）施以援手。

Either as a therapeutic experience or something of a moral test, there are elements of satire and farce in each segment. Much of that is thanks to novelist Wang Shuo, who wrote the screenplay.

無論是心理治療還是道德測試的橋段，各章節都具備了辛辣嘲諷、爆笑十足的元素。而這大部分都要歸功於該片編劇——作家王朔。

And as Feng’s films always do, it has a few impressive punch lines, such as “Fulfilling others by debasing ourselves”, or Feng’s playful self-parody “Chinese films, however bad, are never art.”

該片延續了馮導一貫的風格，加入一些令人印象深刻的戲謔臺詞，例如：“成全別人、噁心自己。”及馮小剛戲謔自嘲的那句：“中國電影，無論多爛，都與藝術無緣。”

Jokes aside, Wang’s script grows increasingly serious, making modest yet satirical criticisms of China’s political, artistic and economic values in the process.

在種種笑料之外，王朔的劇本也變得越發嚴肅，在片中對於中國的政治、藝術以及經濟價值進行了一番適度而辛辣的調侃。

After all, the film is about “sending a message”. Coming from director Feng — a man with a big ego — that’s almost predictable. But maybe because Feng is too busy dealing with his ambition, the film never allows any of its four principal characters to really come into focus.

該片終究難逃“傳達信息”的主題。而出自自我意識很強的馮導之手，這也完全在意料之中。或許是因爲馮導疲於去實現自己的遠大抱負，片中的四位主角形象顯得不夠突出。

The last 15 minutes of the film take a 180-degree turn and become almost a public service announcement — an odd and unexpected ending to a consistently surprising comedy.

影片在最後15分鐘時180度大轉彎，幾乎快成了一部公益宣傳片，爲這部驚喜不斷的喜劇電影畫上了一個令人摸不着頭腦的結局。

That’s something I never dared imagine, but Feng certainly did it.

這是我從來不敢想象的事，但是馮小剛的確這麼做了。