Yet as Mitsuko bends over to pick up her dropped pen, a supernatural force shears off half the bus, bloodily taking the heads and upper torsos of the other girls with it, and leaving Mitsuko covered in blood and fleeing what appears to be a leafy gust of wind (with its own Evil Dead-style shaky cam POV shot as it chases her down the road). TAG’s opening sequence, for example – which surely qualifies as one of the most arresting in film history – begins with an idealised scene: happy schoolgirls on a bus, heading off on a trip, blithely laughing and throwing pillows back and forth, as their female teacher comments on how “nice and sunny” it is. For while this particular act of running was an expression of joyous freedom and escapism, accompanied by an exhilarating musical soundtrack, Mitsuko (Reina Triendl) and her friends are always running in TAG, usually for their lives – and idyllic moments like this interlude on the river bank are just brief lulls in their lives, always overtaken by the relentless pursuit of chaos, destruction and bloody death.
TAG MOVIE INSPIRATION FULL
“Why did we have to run?” asks a schoolgirl, breathlessly, after she and three friends have just ditched class and raced full pelt all the way to a nearby river.
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