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Pachinko Recap: Country Air
After last week’s unrelenting tragedies, our characters are able to finally take a breath.
The soft-blue shadows in the sequence when Kim Changho talks at length about what has led him there, waiting on a stakeout with Noa, Mozasu, and Kyunghee, has a cabinlike feel, evoking the intimacy born out of time spent in quietness and communion with nature. He encourages Noa to practice his reading comprehension, emphasizing how he should pay as much attention to the meaning of the words as to the letters; Sunja looks concerned with it all, but the disarming ease of Hansu’s interaction with the boys makes my heart ache. She explains that he’s having a hard time, though she’d hoped things would be easier for him; when she was his age, she was standing “in ration lines and training in air-raid drills.” The man is the first older person in the show to suggest that just because he didn’t live through the war, poverty, or abjection, it doesn’t mean that life is easy for Solomon.
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