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My thoughts. SPOILERS.

posted 8 years ago by Ghost_Of_Me
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So I enjoyed. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. Saw the trailer and thought it was weird and interesting at the same time. The acting was your typical over dramatic acting, the cinematography was pretty awesome. I wonder how they got all those great flying shots, probably a drone but damn it looked great! The soundtrack was perfect. The SFX were also well done, gore fest but in a good way. The pacing/editing was abit off. But than again I guess it couldnt really be helped since the story jumped around so much. And speaking of story, was it ever a weird one.

So they used her DNA to make clones of her and her friends? But than they put her in a 3D world for men to kill? Was the 3D world a computer game? How could they use DNA in a computer simulator? Also at the end did the old guy make a younger version of himself to have sex with the girls? I did't really understand some of it but I sure liked it. IF anyone has any explanations please do let me know.

A very solid 7/10 for me, would be higher if they explained more of it at the end. But definitely a fun ride! Oh and did anyone else think Tengu at the start of the film?

[–] tom245-32-153383 8 years ago

This film was crazy. I understood the plot exactly the same as you. An old man from the future finds the DNA of a bunch of school girls and puts them in a game called "Girl's World". I think the future portrayed in the film is male-only and these games-using-girls-DNA is the only way for the old man to see females again? It would explain why he tried to make his younger self have sex with her.

My question is:

How does the Mitsuko character have conciousness/independent intelligence when she is a game character controlled by an old man and created from DNA?

Maybe it's some kind of side-effect.

I'm a big Sono fan, but felt a little let down with this one. The trailer was advertising a violent game of tag, where all women must die, carried out by the government. I was expecting trashy B-Movie Battle Royale/Lesson of Evil type of exploitation film. I'd give this Tag a 6.6/10.

[–] nerowolfgal 8 years ago

My husband and I watched this last night. After talking it over my thoughts on the movie are:

Obviously it is a reference to the problem in Japan where a lot of people are spending a LOT of time on video games and are beginning to interact socially based on game tropes. The idea that the old man has cloned a younger version of himself to have sex with the girl, and that it was a long-held dream of his, seems to underline that idea.

I also thought it was a comment on the emphasis on conformity in Japanese society where acting spontaneously is frowned upon, particularly in women, and probably even more so in school girls. In the movie the only way the girl can break free of her "destiny" of being controlled by the game players (all male) is to act spontaneously and unexpectedly. I found it interesting her act was violent, albeit turned against herself. Violence is again a thing Japanese women are not supposed to do.

I think the movie would have more resonance in Asian societies but that is why I watch foreign movies, to get a glimpse into other cultures.

Extremism is the first choice of the uninformed. Benjamin Whichcote

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