M.O.T.H. is a movie from the period when being an immigrant in USA was popular, funny and profitable for Hollywood. Popular movies in this genre included Green Card, Coming to America and others whose name I have forgotten. Hollywood also made nice family movies during that period like She Is Having A Baby and Three Men And A Baby. Then they unleashed horror and mind numbing special effects on the innocent public where the hero was a cannibal psychiatrist (Silence Of The Lambs) or the heroine was an Animated doll (Avatar).Disaster and earthquakes and giant robots took over the role of heroes and villains and actors like Tom Cruise seem like extras in the story!!
MOTH is a movie about a few Russian immigrants who come to visit USA while they discuss decadent moral values in America. One of them defects while shopping in a popular department store and is given asylum. He lives with a black family and finds a 'Spanish' looking co-worker as a girlfriend. There is some propaganda type material in the movie but the fact that the immigrants are shown to be in the lower strata of the society selling hot-dogs on the street etc might make it real. There is a bathtub scene which could have been dispensed with so it could be called a family film![ That is my Indian viewpoint and may or may not match with what other film going public in USA like.] So that is what we immigrants can expect in the 'decadent' USA - a hot dog stand, another immigrant as a girlfriend and a lot of heart-ache!!
MOTH is a movie about a few Russian immigrants who come to visit USA while they discuss decadent moral values in America. One of them defects while shopping in a popular department store and is given asylum. He lives with a black family and finds a 'Spanish' looking co-worker as a girlfriend. There is some propaganda type material in the movie but the fact that the immigrants are shown to be in the lower strata of the society selling hot-dogs on the street etc might make it real. There is a bathtub scene which could have been dispensed with so it could be called a family film![ That is my Indian viewpoint and may or may not match with what other film going public in USA like.] So that is what we immigrants can expect in the 'decadent' USA - a hot dog stand, another immigrant as a girlfriend and a lot of heart-ache!!
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