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In a dream, Mo’s grandfather gives him on a key. “Be careful with this key,” says his grandfather. The key is a symbol of the lost houses in the 1948 Nakba, where a large number of Palestinians lost their homes or fled violence and denied the right to return.
In Month Second season, the titular character has a recurring dream about the key. And this, in essence, summarizes what the season is about: the right to return home.
The first time Mo dreams of the key is when he is caught in a detention center after being caught crossing the border between the United States and Mexico illegally. At the end of the first season, he accidentally ended in Mexico after sneaking into a truck that carried its stolen olive trees. The last season continues the story with Mo surviving in Mexico and trying to return to Houston in time for his hearing for the asylum process.
Looking at home
In Mexico, MO does what is best: bustle. He puts on a mask, the Palestinian bear (the Palestinian bear) is called himself and tries to wrestling Wrestling. He also sells his ‘Falafel tacos’ in a cart to earn money to return home.
The new problems await him once he returns to Houston. His ex -girlfriend, Maria, is now dating a Jewish Israeli chef, a guy called ‘Israeli hummus’, an idea that is ridiculous. “There is no Israeli hummus. He is looting my inheritance,” says Mo “they steal from our culture and then deny it with semantics.” Then, he loses his mind when he finds his “world -famous” Falafel tacos in the menu in the elegant Guy restaurant (Mo had shared his idea with him before discovering Guy’s identity).
Meanwhile, Mo’s family continues the search for the US passport. His goal, once they are no longer refugees and become citizens, is to visit the home: Palestine.
The show is as heartbreaking as fun. Deeply rooted in the Palestinian identity, Mo balances the representation of people, their symbols and the constant struggles they have faced for decades at the hands of the occupation. Even in the United States, Mo cannot call home even after spending his entire life there. “I did not choose to be an apárte,” Mo exclaims in a dream.
In an absurdly funny scene, Mo is told to be deported. However, he cannot leave the country, because he has no home. But he is deported. But he can’t leave. Yes, it is as confusing as it seems.
After being deported but not deported, MO has to use an ankle monitor and respond to the officer silently listening to each of his movements at the other end of the tracker. The situation causes uncomfortable moments, especially when the officer listens to Maria singing praises of her Israeli boyfriend in front of Mo.
That is the strength of Mo he can make you laugh while constantly increasing discomfort until you are in a knot. In fact, he finds his humor in that same discomfort. And that is the signature of the creator Mohammed Amer, a firm that is very Palestine. It comes from this unwavering belief that the Palestinians have that one day, they will return to a free homeland. They safeguard the keys to their ancestors believing that their homes are waiting for their return. The houses can be busy but the locks have not changed.
A family visit home
Even in the program, the representation of MO of Palestine is vivid. The walls, streets, fields, trees and even air call its people. Decades have passed, but the earth has not forgotten its people, or people their land. This love and longing for Palestine is evident in Mo. And it is of that truth that Mo Amer has created the show.
In a scary moment in Palestine, a mute Jewish child follows Mo and his family to his house. Scared of his minds, Mo tries to return the child just for the child’s father to take him out for the child, an illegal settler.
The whole sequence explains for itself. It shows the fear not only to the Palestinian natives of the Earth, but also to the threat of self -denominated in which the settlers live once they decide to occupy. Throughout this trip, Mo subtly points the hypocrisy, theft and exploitation, which is not only on a systemic scale, but also in micro and everyday.
Despite the general conflicts that dictate to MO and the lives of their family, the constant supervision of the State with each of its movements, the threat of losing their small businesses, the struggle of the years to obtain asylum and the tumultuous life loving In the details. It is in the conversations he has with his friends, the constant hustle to reach the end of the month and only belong.
They will remain here
One of the main elements of the importance of the program is that it takes place before October 7, 2023. Month It leaves its schedule in clear, ending the season on October 6, 2023. This point is important because it challenges and denies the narrative propagated that the so -called ‘war’ began on October 7. Month He reiterates what is a known fact that the genocide and oppression of Palestine and Palestinians date back to decades. And if you think about it, it is quite tragic that people who have undergone atrocities as inhuman and treated as less than humans in their own country by the occupant entity for almost a century have to continue providing evidence of their suffering and death.
The show is clear about where it is. And do not dodge the ideas that explores or complicates them with a neutrality mask. The program establishes in unequivocal terms that there is no time for neutrality in times of oppression. And he says it without being a preacher with his sole objective to be representing people and their suffering.
But Month It is a program that is not only relevant due to what has happened since October 7. It would be relevant in any era. His empathy falls to Palestine, but it is a story of suffering of all those who yearn for the home.
During his visit to Palestine, Mo finally finds the key with which he has been dreaming. It is the key to the house of their grandparents in Haifa from where they were forced by the Israeli settlers. Mo wants the key. But his uncle refuses to give it to the United States. “These are here, and they will remain here.”
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