A friend moves into the 45th floor of a slick and shimmering tower in London’s Isle of Dogs. Up there, savouring bachelorhood in the heavens, watching pilots brave the steep glide path to City airport, it is unthinkable that his new neighbourhood served as a war zone within his lifetime. And here I do not resort to lurid tabloid metaphor. Stanley Kubrick used the rusting desolation of the 1980s Docklands to shoot Full Metal Jacket.
一位朋友搬进了伦敦道格斯岛(Isle of Dogs)一座闪闪发光的漂亮高塔的45层。他在那享受天堂般的单身生活,看着飞行员们沿着陡峭的滑翔路线飞往伦敦城市机场(London City Airport),很难想象,在他有生之年,他生活的新社区曾被用作战区。我不会把骇人听闻的小报比喻用在这里。斯坦利•库布里克(Stanley Kubrick)曾在1980年代生锈荒凉的伦敦码头区(Docklands)拍摄《全金属外壳》(Full Metal Jacket)。