Michael Sarria W8 – Prompt 2

Jiří Trnka’s short film “The Hand”(1965) was seen as subversive by the Czechoslovakia’s community party at the time, due to the hand in the film being seen as an oppressive entity that exerts their expression over the main character, which can be seen as an allegory for the oppressive Czech government exerting their own opinions over artist like Jiří and hindering their creativity. This can be seen in the actions of the hand within the film, such as when the hand barged in uninvited and changed the main character’s clay pot into a clay hand, and would break his clay pots when he refused to conform to the hand’s ideas.