Within the film Project Nim, researchers study a Chimpanzee, Nim Chimpsky, throughout his life within different homes, labs, and most importantly types of research. Researchers playing God upon a life is difficult to watch at times, and so there are visceral and intellectual reactions regarding specific scenes that were shown. Viscerally, it was really weird because Nim’s life was to understand how similar Chimps are to humans, however, it became more than that after 5 years. Intellectually, it was fascinating to see how Nim interacted with others with primal behavior during his “human” life and his “lab chimp” life. When Nim begins to drastically increase his sign vocabulary, it was intellectually interesting because I was curious to see what
