Project Nim 2011

     Nim is a chimpanzee, he became the focus in the 1970's of an experiment to learn if he would be able to communicate through sign language.  Since apes do not have the physical ability to form some of the sounds required for human speech, it was already known that he would not be able to speak in our language.  He was taken from his mother at the age of 2 weeks and raised in a home with other human children and like a human child.  He received intense instruction in sign language from different teachers.
      Science, it's a big word to hide behind when your funding runs out and you are able to just turn your back and walk away.  No responsibility needs to be taken personally, it's all for science.  Nim should never have been taken from his mother, she had 6 babies removed from her.  He was living a certain life, in between being an ape and being human.  Suddenly his entire world changes in one plane flight.  I was very disturbed by this film and had to place it on pause until I could look up to see how this would end.  If it ended too badly, I could turn it off.  Fortunately, you can continue watching.  3 ½*  (I liked this movie)

    
93 min, Documentary directed by James Marsh with Garry Harris, Stephanie Lafarge, Jenny Lee Wright, Laura An Petitto, Joyce Butler, Bill Tynan, Herbert Terrace, Tenne Falitz, Bob Ingersoll.

Note:  Blockbuster 3*, imdb 7.5 out of 10, 98% critic 83% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.