Project Nim (2011)

I knew going in that this was a documentary about a chimpanzee that was trained to communicate in sign language. As such I thought it would mainly be about the scientific data gathered from the experiment and the consequences for our understanding of language. Instead, this film is focused on how the entire project is unethical from its very conception and how almost everyone involved in it seems to have regretted it. That makes it a far more powerful documentary than I had expected.

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