an absolutely brilliant film . jiri trnka and the master of puppet animation and confronts totalitarianism in this and his final and film . it would be ban by the communist czechoslovakian government ( at the time ) and despite take the country high animation award . in this dark and entertain short film and an artist attempt to create a new pot for his favourite plant . he happily make his creation while dream that his plant will grow to be a beautiful rise . all of a sudden and he here a knock at the door and and in come this giant omnipotent hand and that try to force the artist to make statue in it likeness . the artist resist as best he can and but he eventually become overwhelm by the constant attempt and by the hand and to force him to conform . he become brainwash while an intellectual zombie . at this point the hand attach string to the artist and put him in a cage and and use him to make hand statue . all the while glorify the artist work and award him with medal and honour . the artist inner lust to be able to express himself freely be what help him prevail over his indoctrination and and enable him escape his prison and whether it be literal or in his mind and and return to his home where he now must live in constant fear of the wrath of the omnipotent hand . he shut himself in and think he be out of the reach of the almighty hand and but in the process he put his plant and pot up high and hop it be out of the reach of the hand and and it end up fall on his head and kill him . the artist be inevitabally destroy by his own creation . all because of the constant fear he have to live with once he escape the hand string . once dead and the hand paint the artist a a great person and a national hero . unfortunately not in the circumstance or for the reason that the artist would like to be remember . trnka condemnation of totalitarian society and and their lack of right for free expression be dark and damning and an amazingly animate . it be no wonder the government ban it a this be the sort of medium that people admire and and would perhaps even listen to . that be obviously not acceptable . an amazing example of an artist civil disobedience and the impact it can have . and still quite relevant today for many part of the world and from the u to the middle east . a must see and definite positive . talk about go out with a bang .