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Genny: Just when I thought no movie on this list could possibly be worse than my #39, here comes this film which feels like a personal attack on me specifically. To understand why I had such a vitriolic reaction to Colorful, you'll have to know a bit about the darkest portion of my otherwise fairly fortunate life. When I was in middle school, I was very shy and very smart, and I was bullied for as much. The bullying was not so much physical as it was verbal, and it was only by a few peers, and the rest completely neglected me. I only had one true friend at this time as I was already beginning to drift away from the only other "best friend" I had at this point because she was more interested in boys than the many things we once had in common. Art (along with books and video games) was one of my few escapes from this harsh reality, and, if I'm being perfectly honest, I was having thoughts of jumping from high places far too often.

I'm sorry to digress, but getting back to Colorful, I hate it because the main character reminds me of all the worst aspects of myself when I was younger. However it doesn't stop there. Whenever I was forced to interact with other human beings at that age I always attempted to be polite if not kind, whereas Makoto goes out of his way to be cruel to most other people, particularly his literal guardian angel Purapura, and especially his own mother and his autistic-coded peer Shoko, who do their best to appease him and to befriend him respectively. He comes across as an irredeemable misogynist, and the only girl he's initially consistently nice to is the one he has a sexual interest in. To be honest, Hiroka is the woman in his life who deserves his compassion the least, not because she's promiscuous, but because she's so shallow and materialistic.

The "inspirational speech" he gives her toward the end of the film about people having many different colors is completely lost on me given the surface level interactions these two characters have had, all sans any real chemistry. It's also delivered in Greg Ayres's insufferable nasally tones which is possibly the worst casting choice ever made for a main character in any English dub to date. I loathe this protagonist, who reminds me so much of myself at that age, and yet is my antithesis to the point that I almost wish he was never given a second chance at life. So many better people did so much more to deserve one and yet are gone forever while this boy did little to nothing and yet remains. Whatever selfless acts he commits are too little, too late, and well beyond the point where I personally already abandoned any hope of him bettering himself. Sometimes life is truly unfair.

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