insanlığın sınırı nerde biter,doğa nerede başlar?iletişim için konuşmak şart mıdır?gerçek anne kimdir?bunlar güzel sorular ve konu bunların açımlanması için çok müsait ama film çok fazla müzik kullanıyor,taraflı davranıyor ve bu sorularla ilgili tatmin edici bir anlatıma ulaşamıyor.man on wire'dan çok daha magazinsel ve şova yönelik.tipki nim'in aslında konusmayıp sirinlik

Not nearly as enchanting as Man on Wire, but this is a cool follow-up to that film that will cement your hatred for humankind.

I don't want to sound racist (in that most broad definition of the term), but the documentary lost me when it went from interesting inter-species study, in which some of the people surrounding the project share Nim's IQ, to the sad demise of a demented monkey. The best bits are when the people that Nim attacks, try to humanize and explain his actions. 'He attacked because he was angry that we left him'. No. You went into a cage with a dangerous animal and it didn't like that, you fucking moron.

A fifteen minutes wiki search granted me more information than the film itself. However the subject is inherently interesting for me and simply the amount of footage warrants a watch if you are interested in the synopsis as well.

A truly heart-wrenching documentary. The story of Nim is both extremely moving and very emotional. Most people seem to miss the focus of the documentary being Nim's progress through life, and try to gain too much information of the actual project, the research behind it, and the issues that are caused by it.

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Packs an emotional punch, which was obviously its intention, rather than explaining some scientific study. Very well put together, and quite quite sad on a number of levels.

I feel sorry for Nim, if only because he had to endure life with a constant stream of self-serving morons washing away any hope of leading a normal chimp existence. No wonder he bit everyone.

Prepare to be depressed out by Nim's story. I would guess writers of Rise of the Planet of the Apes were influenced by primate experiments from the 70's. Stylistically, Project Nim is similar to previous Marsh' documentary Man on Wire. Different emotions. I would have loved to share a joint with Nim!

In hindsight, the most heartbreaking part of the whole story was the missed opportunity to form a human/chimp vocalist duo called "Feces & Herb."

It shocks me how often the chimps say 'hug' and 'play.' And to people who care about the science: the film displays pretty clear evidence that chimps can use language and understand subject/object relationships in their communications.

If you know anything about chimpanzees, you know that as cute as they may be, they can rip your face off at any moment. For whatever reason, these well educated people from beginning to end are enchanted by the endearing things Nim does until he tries to do just that. It's not just once either. The cycle repeats and repeats throughout 'Project Nim' and each time I found it harder to take seriously. You know how things are going to play out and still they push their human feelings on an animal.

Interesting to an extent yet I never felt it finished any of the themes/issues it brings up.

This film starkly exposes the 1970s at their worst. A burning passion, a belief in universal equality extending even to animals, but with no momentum for follow through and with no forethought as to the ramifications of their experiment. Horror show. Anyways, visually I was very impressed. Much of the visual material is photographic, which normally leads to Ken Burns style visuals, which are awful. Marsh avoids this, thank God, and makes the film visually interesting

Much in the same vein as Marsh's Man on Wire, in which he takes a not-so-objective approach about a moving if ethically questionable story. He plainly depicts heroes and villains. Again he makes decent use of fictionalized footage, though not quite to the extent that it can be called re-enactment as in his previous effort.

An interesting film but it's downright bizarre how it just kind of doesn't care about the actual science in this scientific study.

I went expecting a film that explored the differences between chimps and humans and what it means to be human. The film disappointed me in that regard, although the film did have an emotional impact. However, the film felt more like an animal-rights advocacy piece, which is not bad, but I question the presentation of the issue and people involved.

"It's dispiriting to see James Marsh deploy a rhetorical strategy of simply assuming human/chimp equivalence in order to stoke outrage at Nim's post-experiment treatment." - Andrew Schenker

Very interesting documentary that raises complex questions on a number of levels. The film itself appears heavily influenced by the style of Errol Morris, the various characters are all interesting, and the tale of Nim is moving and sad. The scientific significance remains ambiguous.

The doc is less on the ape or the research and more about the idiots conducting it. And no, I don't think it does a good job making that interesting either

People complaining about the lack of information about the study itself are missing the point to a comical degree.

Solid doc with a good "storyline".