The best moment in Liz and the Blue Bird is near the end, when we see the main character from the first-person perspective of another character. Something similar happens in The Colors Within . The difference is that in Liz and the Blue Bird , the transmission of a new perspective is the climax, something the characters need to get past acute stress; in The Colors Within , it serves a similar purpose, but it's not as big of a surprise. From early on, we know that Totsuko, who sees people as projecting colorful "auras," hopes to write a song to convey the feeling she gets from her friend Kimi's color. The film is about Totsuko, Kimi, and Rui forming a band and writing their own original songs. There are other details, of course. Totsuko lives in the dormitories of a Catholic school, goes to pray alone in the chapel every day, and forms a bond with Sister Hiyoko, one of the nuns on the staff. Kimi was a student at that school, but drops out and...
"We are in the world, not against it." - Ursula K. Le Guin