TAG is another offbeat movie from Japanese cult director Sion Sono, possibly his weirdest yet. The story follows the pitfalls of a young schoolgirl who finds herself the sole survivor of a shocking and inexplicable accident; her day just gets weirder from there. This abstract movie doesn't make a whole lot of sense; rather, it's a thematic piece exploring fate, predestiny, alternate realities, death and violence, all in Sono's inimitable style. It's very bizarre to sit through, dodgy at times (it seems, like his protagonist in LOVE/EXPOSURE, Sono loves upskirting) and featuring lots of gruesome, outlandish CGI death scenes which are hardly realistic. At times it feels like little more than a string of extraordinary set-pieces with some mumbo-jumbo exposition in between. On the other hand, it's also fresh and original, and I can guarantee you won't have seen anything quite like it before.
Review of Tag
