I liked this film. It’s actually my favourite one!
“The hand” is a representation of what it means to oppress something- in this sense, the government. The puppet represents an artist and the clay being manipulated represents art- or virtually anything in the matter. As we navigate through the film, we see how the hand only intervenes and creates standards that the puppet must obey- limiting it from broadening their sense of creativity. When the puppet fails to reach the standard, a black gloved hand appears to take action.
My favourite part in the scene is where the puppet lost its human qualities in deciding for itself. It does what it was asked to do forcingly- becoming the puppet. And when it became the puppet, it became lifeless like the puppet is- depending on a hand to decide for it.
This posed issue to the gov’t since it addresses how a gov’t such as Szechoslovakia was very oppressive.
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