A kindly man helps a one-armed street pauper by buying him an artificial limb. The limb goes out of the pauper's control as it steals everything in sight. This gets the pauper arrested, and when he's sent to jail he meets a one-armed thief who his happy to get his arm back.
Does a limb contain vestiges of the mind from the body it came from? This movie was done well before several things we have today like transplants and stem-cell things, but that just makes it creepier. Why, for instance, would that arm be there? How did it get separated from its owner? This is not a film to make sense, but to be fascinated by.
Overall, it uses stop-motion animation and double-exposures brilliantly, and the acting is even more brilliant (when the man is using his arm to steal stuff while the rest of his body continues to beg). It's certainly well-done, it just isn't really meant to make much sense.
--PolarisDiB
Does a limb contain vestiges of the mind from the body it came from? This movie was done well before several things we have today like transplants and stem-cell things, but that just makes it creepier. Why, for instance, would that arm be there? How did it get separated from its owner? This is not a film to make sense, but to be fascinated by.
Overall, it uses stop-motion animation and double-exposures brilliantly, and the acting is even more brilliant (when the man is using his arm to steal stuff while the rest of his body continues to beg). It's certainly well-done, it just isn't really meant to make much sense.
--PolarisDiB