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A girl who can see the colors in people’s hearts joins a band with two other people.. Naoko Yamada’s fifth feature film.. I loved this film. It had a certain warmth to it – the warmth that Totsuko brought through her sincere appreciations, the warmth that is grounded in new friendships, the warmth of forgiveness and acceptance, the warmth of spending time with those you love away from the turmoil of life, and the warmth of creating art. I think of the prayer that Totsuko recited: “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” Life is hard, and perhaps it’s for the best that, like the free spirit who sees the colors in Totsuko, we too somehow find within ourselves the serenity, the courage, and the wisdom to get through it.
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