2020 Directed by Philippa Ehrlich, James Reed
After years of swimming every day in the freezing ocean at the tip of Africa, Craig Foster meets an unlikely teacher: a young octopus who displays remarkable curiosity. Visiting her den and tracking her movements for months on end he eventually wins the animal’s trust and they develop a never-before-seen bond between human and wild animal.
我的章鱼老师, 我的八爪魚老師, オクトパスの神秘: 海の賢者は語る
Went into this worried he was going to fall in love with the octopus, but now I think I might be in love with the octopus
If you catch me trying to befriend the cockroach in my bathroom after watching this doc, mind your own business.
Baby Cthulhu fakes his own death in order to escape an underwater paparazzi.
this man’s wife is probably PISSED lmaooo. He straight up had an affair with an octopus it doesn’t get worse than that
The octopus is one of the only animals I won't eat because of guilt; however I'd have no problem eating this guy, who frames the nature documentary as a sad straight rich white guy story about himself and fits the octopus into a manic pixie dream girl trope to fit his needs.
"She ignited my curiosity in a way I had not experienced before" -Craig,
- 2020 Ranked: boxd.it/4zdAI
Note: Any time someone makes a movie about themselves becoming friends with a sea creature I'm in, I want to see that.
Wow, this is...
This movie mesmerized me a bit. I'm now convinced that Octopi might be the most interesting animals on earth. I was a bit turned off by the parts about him healing himself through the octopus but the rest is absolutely fantastic underwater footage of the coolest looking being in the sea. I like that the film doesn't spend exorbitant amounts of time on the science aspects and just made it about the life of this one cute little girl who does such a good job living her life.
Nature is a miracle, appreciate it.
To me, this film beautifully illustrates what the late, great French philosopher Giles Deleuze meant when he talked about "becoming animal." In the process of "becoming animal" one morphs into an "other" not by means of imitation or filiation, but through contagion: via the affective and psychological "contagiousness" of joining a new assemblage / "pack" / ecosystem.
What blew my mind was how emotionally, physiologically, and intellectually attuned Craig Foster became to the local marine environment world. An emblem of phenomenological sensitivity, he exhibited our forgotten potential for achieving augmented perceptivity and adaptability within a wild, unfamiliar milieu.
In particular, Foster's anecdote about his fascination with the Hadza hunters in Tanzania and his admiration of their immense acuity to the…
A mysteriously wealthy documentary filmmaker has something of an emotional breakdown, realizes he's working too hard and neglecting his family, and so he quits, immediately takes up an intense and obsessive daily diving regimen, begins an emotional affair with an octopus, and has someone else film a documentary about him. I'm sure that's really helping you connect with your kid, dude.
Has a lot of really beautiful and fascinating octopus footage but also a lot of really overbearingly portentous voiceover and music. There's a much more interesting documentary here that's either more cognizant of the privilege and emotional dysfunction fueling this guy's crisis or else just about how cool octopuses are, but this ain't it.
came for the underwater photography, stayed for the man cheating on his wife with an octupus (emotionally)
something about them humanising one single octopus so fervently doesn't sit right with me
How it started: I can't be a good father to my son.
How it ended: This octopus is my child now.
Not much more than a vain, sad man’s uncommon obsession with an octopus and a pair of directors who have no idea how to fill their short runtime except to pack it with an incessant, mind numbing voiceover that adds nothing to our understanding of this human-animal bond. I say this without hyperbole: this is one of the most boring, empty, vapid films I’ve ever seen.
As a nature documentary this does have a lot of great footage that is worth viewing, though I wouldn't say it reaches the heights of something like the "Planet Earth" series by doing anything revolutionary. The best stuff is probably when the octopus is interacting with the other animals around it, whether it be its prey or its predators. The insight from the narrator (who is also the person who spent the year following the octopus) is informative most of the time, but I actually didn't care for when he strayed into giving his emotional assessment of the situation the octopus was in. I think it would have been much more effective, personally, to just let the interactions with the…
I am so unbelievably soft after watching this. This could melt even the coldest of hearts. I cannot handle myself.
I feel softer than watching Little Women, I swear.
This is the softest I’ve ever felt.
I want a man who talks about me the way he talks about this octopus.
after white men in their midlifecrisis - unable to really connect with the reasons why they are feeling depressed and empty inside - used, abused and fucked everything they can reach on land, they finally move on into the ocean. it‘s all yours buddy, just take it. the world is all about you and there is seriously no projection of your own failed emotions towards yourself in the things you percieve in that octopus’s behavior. go on.
Spoilers: He doesn’t make whoopie with the octopus, but he probably wishes he did.
Aside from some great underwater photography, this movie offers nothing besides a weak “wow we should respect nature” message.
My Octopus Teacher brings you back to the beauty and mystery of our planet. Although some are bothered by the relationship and dedication Craig Foster has with the octopus, the only thoughts that came to mind during this movie were “wow!”
What separates My Octopus Teacher from a nature documentary is that it isn’t a nature documentary, but captures all of the amazing footage and imagery that we all gravitate towards. The relationship Craig Foster builds with the octopus is enchanting, and although his narration is fairly constant throughout the movie, you catch yourself extending your heart strings to this little cephalopod on your own fruition. It’s easy to criticize Craig’s devotion to his daily diving ritual and what he…
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