Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde, is the Peruvian Foreign Minister and in statements to the Peruvian News Network (CPN) he has made a recommendation: Do not go to see the latest installment of Indiana Jones, since, as he said, it contains many errors about Peru, the place where he takes us the film, and also regrets that they did not do a more in-depth investigation.
Among the notable errors are, for example, when Indiana Jones claims to have learned Quechua, one of the official languages of Peru, while participating in the Mexican revolution with Pancho Villa. Another example would be the situation of the coastal town Nazca, some 460 kilometers south of Lima, in the Andean region of Cuzco, more than 800 kilometers southeast of the Peruvian capital, and sets the scene with Mexican ranchera music. In the film we can see that people are dressed in the Andean way despite the fact that Nazca is at sea level, when Cuzco is at nothing more and nothing less than 3000 meters of altitude.
Leaving aside Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde and his views on the mistakes that the film makes with Peru, one could also highlight the excess of unrealism with which the vast majority of the film's action scenes have, destroying the memory that many of us had about this saga. The enthusiasm that people showed for this film was normal, since there were 20 years of waiting, but 20 years for this? While I was waiting to enter the movie theater, the faces of the people when leaving to see the film spoke for themselves, and as the archaeologist said several times in scenes of the film I thought "this smells very bad to me" and I was not there. wrong. In all this time they have been able to do something better, without much effort they would have achieved it, something that, at least, would not destroy the image of Indiana Jones who was affectionately nicknamed Jonsy, Jonsy? and to think that previously he complained because they called him Junior ...