Boy, this movie stays with you. It's a little over two minutes long, has only one character and one setting, but the ideas are so stark and the theme so strong that it wiggles around in your subconscious. It's a nightmare to the nth degree.

The animated character looks a little like Gollum from The Lord of the Rings, and, indeed, he shares Gollum's bottomless self-deception and avarice. The setting appears to be a hotel room, though it's unlike any hotel room I've ever been in. This looks like the kind of place where Jodie Foster's character in Taxi Driver would meet her tricks. We see a gun, an empty bottle of booze and a suitcase with a few bucks in it, all lying on an unmade bed. In the bathroom, which is sprayed floor to ceiling with graffiti, a bald little man in boxer shorts and a wife-beater is staring at himself in the mirror. A pimple appears on his cheek, and he discovers that when he presses it a mountain of gold appears. Another pimple appears - a physical manifestation of what greed does to people - and another, until he discovers that this is a game he can only lose.

I don't know if you can talk about "performances" in animated movies where the characters don't say anything, but the performance by this guy is great. He's a nervous wreck, and he makes you feel extremely uneasy. The color palette and the soundtrack - especially the sinister beating heart that opens and closes the film - also contribute to the disturbing tone.