Distorted images of the city of Bogota, Colombia

Rating: 3/10 (17 July 2005)

TO THE PRODUCERS OF MR. & MRS. SMITH:
It is very offensive for the respectable people from Colombia, like my family and me, to see the distorted image of Bogotá in the movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith. One goes to the movie to see great actors and human been like Angeline Jolie and Brad Pitt and since the beginning received a slap in the face with the distorted image of the city of Bogotá. This is a way to attack a different culture. Is like said that because Italy has some 'mafia' all the Italians are 'mafiosos' or to distort the image of the beautiful city of Sicily. That is the same case with Colombia. We indeed have some problems (the same like the US.A. has) but we have also decent people and beautiful cities like Bogotá, Cartagena, Cali, and Medellin, just to name only some of them. We Colombians invite the director of the movie, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, to visit Bogotá and to do some research before doing a movie and ask him no to misinterpret one culture. And please do not confuse us with Mexicans, because even they are a very important culture, we are different!
Sincerely yours:
Patricia Hernandez Febres (Colombian citizen).