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.
一位朋友搬進了倫敦道格斯島(Isle of Dogs)一座閃閃發光的漂亮高塔的45層。他在那享受天堂般的單身生活,看著飛行員們沿著陡峭的滑翔路線飛往倫敦城市機場(London City Airport),很難想像,在他有生之年,他生活的新社區曾被用作戰區。我不會把駭人聽聞的小報比喻用在這裏。斯坦利•庫布里克(Stanley Kubrick)曾在1980年代生鏽荒涼的倫敦碼頭區(Docklands)拍攝《全金屬外殼》(Full Metal Jacket)。