A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to firmer ground.
A Ratinha Valente, סודה של נים, Brisby et le secret de Nimh, ニムの秘密, Секрет Н.И.М.Х., 勇敢鼠妈妈, The Secret of NIMH 1, Секрет НИМХ, Секрет НІПЗ, Таємниця NIMH, Секрет NIMH, Таємниця НІПЗ, Таємниця НІП, Секрет НІП, Rém-mese, Mrs. Brisby und das Geheimnis von NIMH
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A webbed and gnarled translucent watercolor sword and sorcery pastoral, furious with movement and activated Newtonian Alchemies. One of the jewels of the Annus Mirabilis 1982, The Secret of NIMH plays out like a crazed post-Disney, post-Rankin/Bass brew of Altered States and the Planet of the Apes TV shows. In the shadow of human civilization, the United States Government has given rats the capacity to use magickal and non-magickal technologies apparently not extant in un-DARPA'ed rat theories of global operations. This is the birth of the end of humankind's assumed hegemonic grasp on this world. Also, John Carradine as the most hypnotically terrifying animated owl ever.
I rewatched this film to see if it would be suitable to show to my 4 year old daughter. And while the answer is a resounding 'no' I did rediscover this rare, beautiful and surprisingly moving animated marvel.
Don Bluth is a genius. He is one of the best animators ever and I'm glad he had enough of Disney, left there fighting and made this. There's a good chance this film would not have existed otherwise.
With Bluth's characteristic animation style, we are given the story of a mouse seeking help from a group of intelligent rats as her son is sick and she has to leave her house. Throw in a wise owl and a host of other talking…
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My first time witnessing the spectacular climax of The Secret of NIMH set my imagination on fire as a kid and is a movie moment that I will never forget.
"Courage of the heart is very rare. The stone has a power when it's there."
I have always admired the unique animated style of Don Bluth, and his amazing early work after leaving Disney were some of the first movies I remember seeing. In rewatching The Secret of NIMH, I noticed how simple this story is of a widowed mother mouse named Mrs. Brisby, who goes on an amazing adventure to save her home in order to protect her children including her sick son Timothy. What…
Cinematic Time Capsule
1982 Marathon - Film #73
”They must move your house to the lee of the stone”
With it’s darker than average themes and gorgeous old school animation, this is easily my favorite Don Bluth film.
I’m also grateful to this one for expanding my vocabulary. And for the last 40 years I’ve keep it’s lessons tucked away in the lee of my brain as I patiently await the perfect opportunity to use it!
”You can unlock any door if you only have a key”
We know there is more to the world than what we see.
For so much of human history, we have told stories of worlds just out of sight. Fairies in mounds, trolls stalking just out of sight, the wonders and terrors of the yokai, the nunnehi, spirits in every culture you can name, all the way into the present day rumors of cryptids. What is beyond our vision is something fantastic, we tell ourselves. Something terrifying. Something that brings us woe and wonder.
The truth is, there is a world beyond our vision, full of terrors and wonders, but it is not the world our ancestors devised. It's not quite what Robert C. O'Brien envisioned, either, but somehow, his strange…
Tackling my closet this morning.. wanted to start the day with an oldie I've not seen for many years.
Love Dom DeLuise
Young Wil Wheaton playing the voice of Martin.. I didn't realize.. so cute.
Of course when I was younger the owl scared me along with the mean ol rat.
Still a classic though.
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The Secret of NIMH is a beautiful, sometimes terrifying, animated feature. It deserves credit for its exploration of mature themes (particularly animal experimentation) and refreshing for the time protagonist - a mother who gets sucked into the adventure but is primarily concerned with trying to save her child. The way that light is utilized in particular is mesmerizing and gorgeous. Solid stuff.
𝑾𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒏𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒔.
𝑾𝒆 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉.
During 1958 - 1962 a series of experiments was performed by John C. Calhoun at the National Institute of Mental Health; during these studies a collection of “Rat utopias” - enclosed spaces with an unlimited access to food and water at the cost of having a limited area to populate - were created and observed over time and would set the groundwork for modeling and making inferences about the possible effects that urbanization and overpopulation might have on humans and their respective social structure.
After seeing an increase in behaviors that could be labeled antisocial or those that would likely put colonies at a risk of becoming extinct -…
