I love this so much - because she wants for her daughter to have more and he will back her up. But it's also so realistic that he loves her and he is willing to go to bat/back her up (he does make sure his daughter AND his sister have trikes after this) but it doesn't occur to him per se until she points out. Because why would it? He's a 1960s male villager - he is loving and upright but he doesn't think the way she does because he's not her.
How can she not love him? OOOOOOHHHHHHH (But also, it's credit to PBG's acting but also the writing that while GS comes across as a very very good man, he doesn't feel too-good-to-be-true or unrealistic. He's no prince charming; he's not very educated, cannot tell a compliment or have an intellectual discussion really, he's actually not much of a talker at all and yet...)
There is a Russian saying about a really dependable man "behind him like behind a stone wall" and when he said that, it made me think of it.
And off they go for some good time (honestly, it's pretty impressive they don't have five kids running around by now.)
But it's the morning scene that gets me - not just the trikes but the way he moves tables to sit with the "lessers" - not the men or the matriarch but his wife, mom, daughter and sister (and also, how realistic that it's the women - his mom and grandma, that keep enforcing all the subjugation of women stuff) but also - the peas stuff! The kid asks for more peas and there aren't any on her mom's plate and when he pivots, he also gives his peas - but not to his daughter, to Ae Sun for HER to give to their kid - because he's not planning to play some peasant version of Lord Bountiful - the girl asked her mom so he's going to make sure Ae Sun can satisfy her daughter - her daughter asked for it from the mom so from the mom she should have (and also, she can have some for herself too, if she wants.)
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