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Post by Zee on Apr 29, 2021 13:47:26 GMT
Are we all just ignoring the fact that most of us spent the whole time watching it wondering when he was going to bang the octopus? 😄 But in seriousness it really is a beautiful movie and I raved about it to anyone who would listen when I watched it. That octopus is a STAR. What? No, I have to say, that never once crossed my mind. They were friends!
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Post by anniebeth24 on Apr 29, 2021 13:53:13 GMT
To me, the most amazing part was the intelligence of the octopus. It's something I never thought about, just kind of assumed they and other such creatures weren't that bright. Lesson learned!
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Post by J u l e e on Apr 29, 2021 14:18:09 GMT
Thank you for all the spoilers. I really have trouble with intentionally being sad, but my daughter’s major is marine biology so I should suck it up and watch it with her. Her last exam of freshman year is tomorrow, so we should watch tomorrow night to celebrate. We don’t have Netflix though. Where else can we watch? I researched it for you, and it looks like for now it is only on Netflix. ☹️ No VOD or iTunes. It may be at some AMC theaters, but it isn’t playing currently at any near me. I got right into the shower after that post and thought, “I could have looked that up myself!” I figured it might be something someone knew off the top of their head. I didn’t mean to have you research it for me, but thank you!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2021 15:40:59 GMT
Odd one out here. Watched it and didn’t love it. The cinematography was excellent, but I couldn’t get past how depressing Craig was. Not sure what it was. His voice? His need to be alone? His minimal interaction with his wife and son? I don’t know, but just the overall tone of the film left me feeling sad.
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Post by elaine on Apr 29, 2021 19:20:32 GMT
elaine I am sorry to read about your father. Even though it was 50 years ago, he was still your dad. I teared up last night watching Pres Biden's address when he got to the cancer part. My dad June 2008 and during that part of the address I had tears running down my face. It doesn't help that a friend died a week ago and her sunset memorial is Saturday. I f*#&ing hate cancer. I am a ball of emotions right now due to the above and having some health problems that keep me on the edge. I would love to watch this but I am not sure I will make it through. I’m so sorry for the loss of your father and your friend. (((Hugs))) I’m also sorry that you have health concerns. The movie isn’t going anywhere. It will be there for you to watch when you are in a better emotional space, if you decide that you want to watch it then. Be gentle with yourself. 💕
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Post by elaine on Apr 29, 2021 19:22:48 GMT
To me, the most amazing part was the intelligence of the octopus. It's something I never thought about, just kind of assumed they and other such creatures weren't that bright. Lesson learned! Octopuses are scary intelligent for a cephalopod. Comparative psychologists have been studying them for decades. It is amazing what they can be taught to do using operant conditioning.
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Post by elaine on Apr 29, 2021 19:26:29 GMT
elaine I am so sorry for the tragic loss of your father. This movie is on our watch list, and we will watch it with my dd, who is thinking of majoring in oceanography or marine biology. Nomadland is also amazing, a must-watch in my opinion, especially with the end of the moratorium on evictions, and an increase in homelessness, that is likely coming this summer It is interesting that both movies touched on the issues of isolation, separation and loneliness in this year of the pandemic in which those were huge issues for many people. And those movies were both made before the pandemic, so while they spoke to us, they weren’t made after the fact that many people became cut off from their social and extended family circles.
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Post by scrapmomof2 on Apr 29, 2021 19:29:34 GMT
This was one of my favorite movies. I was an accidental watcher too!
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Post by LiLi on Apr 29, 2021 19:48:53 GMT
I may be a horrible person. I watched this last night and came to a completely, different conclusion. Although, I can appreciate the beauty and tiny bit of scientific information. Why is this dude projecting human feelings on an octopus? Why does he call it a she? Why is he avoiding his life and ditching his family for this? It can't all possibly be exactly as it is portrayed. It isn't possible that there are so many cuts of him from a distance? There had to be more than just him involved in the recording process which makes a lot of the story portrayed, contrived. My kids and husband enjoyed it. I personally don't think it deserved an award. Was it just me? Or was the guys voice super annoying? Maybe I'm just cranky. 😋
Anecdotal evidence: Twice I have come into contact with octopus; both times I reached out and the octopus reached back and touched my finger. Facts: octopuses are super curious and it isn't rare for them to interact with, and recognize humans.
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Post by Zee on Apr 29, 2021 19:55:55 GMT
I may be a horrible person. I watched this last night and came to a completely, different conclusion. Although, I can appreciate the beauty and tiny bit of scientific information. Why is this dude projecting human feelings on an octopus? Why does he call it a she? Why is he avoiding his life and ditching his family for this? It can't all possibly be exactly as it is portrayed. It isn't possible that there are so many cuts of him from a distance? There had to be more than just him involved in the recording process which makes a lot of the story portrayed, contrived. My kids and husband enjoyed it. I personally don't think it deserved an award. Was it just me? Or was the guys voice super annoying? Maybe I'm just cranky. 😋 Anecdotal evidence: Twice I have come into contact with octopus; both times I reached out and the octopus reached back and touched my finger. Facts: octopuses are super curious and it isn't rare for them to interact with humans. The guy was kind of depressed, I thought. But making his way. I don't really remember because he wasn't that important to me, but when the octopus gave him a hug and a cuddle, well, I just couldn't help but see it that way too. Like when my cat cuddles me. It was so heartwarming. I don't really have any reason to NOT think that octopus enjoyed their interaction. Many animals do. And maybe the filmmaker just didn't want to document his interaction with his family. I'm the type of person that (in real life, not really here so much because we're fairly anonymous) will tell you all about how much I love my cat but I'm pretty quiet about my family because it's so much more deeply personal, and I tend to keep that private. He called it a she because it's a female, I assume he knew that for some reason other than a lucky guess (again, can't remember, I haven't seen it for like a year), but I call every animal "he" unless it's obvious and I don't really see the problema.
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Post by Skellinton on Apr 29, 2021 19:59:30 GMT
I may be a horrible person. I watched this last night and came to a completely, different conclusion. Although, I can appreciate the beauty and tiny bit of scientific information. Why is this dude projecting human feelings on an octopus? Why does he call it a she? Why is he avoiding his life and ditching his family for this? It can't all possibly be exactly as it is portrayed. It isn't possible that there are so many cuts of him from a distance? There had to be more than just him involved in the recording process which makes a lot of the story portrayed, contrived. My kids and husband enjoyed it. I personally don't think it deserved an award. Was it just me? Or was the guys voice super annoying? Maybe I'm just cranky. 😋 Anecdotal evidence: Twice I have come into contact with octopus; both times I reached out and the octopus reached back and touched my finger. Facts: octopuses are super curious and it isn't rare for them to interact with, and recognize humans. Pretty sure he calls it a she because she is a girl octopus. From what I read she mated with a male octopus and laid eggs. What would you call the octopus? ETA octopuses aren’t terribly difficult to determine the sex of, the females have suckers on all their tentacles all the way, males have one tentacle with only some suckers. Thank you 8th grade oceanography for that fun fact.
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Post by Restless Spirit on Apr 29, 2021 20:09:10 GMT
I won't be watching it because I can't emotionally handle animal death. I just can't. elaine. All these years on the board together and I never knew about your dad. I am truly so very sorry and sad for your loss. How hard it must be not to have been able to share your boys with him. My DD went to Coastal Carolina University to study Marine Biology, but somewhere along the way changed her major. I know she has Netflix, so I'll let her know about this show.
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Post by birukitty on Apr 29, 2021 20:55:07 GMT
I'm so sorry for the tragic loss of your father Elaine.
I watched this film last year when it first came out. I knew nothing about it, just decided to give it a try one night. I absolutely loved it. I thought it was incredibly well filmed, pulled on so many emotions and I learned a lot too. I raved about it for days to everyone I knew and even came on here to tell all of the Peas about it.
I cannot watch animals die on the screen. People-fine. Animals-no way! In this film I don't see the way the octopus died as an animal death from a shark attack-it wasn't. Octopuses only have a life span of one year. This film maker filled this octopus for about that time period, I think. Later on in the film she mates and it's at the stage of nurturing the eggs that her lifespan is almost finished. By the time the tiny babies emerge from the eggs there is almost nothing left of the mother's body-her life is eking away. She has given everything of herself to make sure those babies grow and hatch. There is so little left by the time the shark comes along and eats what little is left of her. If that hadn't happened her very, very soon to be lifeless body would just have floated away until there was nothing left.
Yes, it's incredibly sad. Sad that octopuses don't live more than a year. But this is nature.
All in all the film itself is incredibly rewarding. Give it a try. I think (well for me at least) it was well worth that sad moment. I enjoyed so much learning more about octopuses (I knew they were intelligent) and really loved the visual delights of the film making.
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Post by elaine on Apr 29, 2021 21:15:54 GMT
I may be a horrible person. I watched this last night and came to a completely, different conclusion. Although, I can appreciate the beauty and tiny bit of scientific information. Why is this dude projecting human feelings on an octopus? Why does he call it a she? Why is he avoiding his life and ditching his family for this? It can't all possibly be exactly as it is portrayed. It isn't possible that there are so many cuts of him from a distance? There had to be more than just him involved in the recording process which makes a lot of the story portrayed, contrived. My kids and husband enjoyed it. I personally don't think it deserved an award. Was it just me? Or was the guys voice super annoying? Maybe I'm just cranky. 😋 Anecdotal evidence: Twice I have come into contact with octopus; both times I reached out and the octopus reached back and touched my finger. Facts: octopuses are super curious and it isn't rare for them to interact with, and recognize humans. Like, Zee, I think he was depressed and feeling isolated (part of depression). Depressed people do a lot of things to cope with depression. Personally, I think that this was probably a less self-destructive and family-destructive way of coping than turning to alcohol, for example, which isn’t uncommon. I don’t understand why not focusing on the film crew made it less genuine for you. I also love the Disney World of Nature documentary films and they don’t focus on the film crew either. 🤷♀️ He called her a “she” because she was female. 😀 My BIL is South African, so I enjoyed the accent, but I think others have mentioned that they didn’t like his voice either. I don’t like a number of movies that other people love and have won awards - Titanic was darned dreadful, IMO, for example - so, I can appreciate that we all have different tastes. Apparently, My Octopus Teacher didn’t do it for you. 🥰
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2021 21:41:41 GMT
DH and I watched it today. It was so charming, so informative about this sweet creature. The photography was exquisite. And son meeting up with one of her babies just made my day! As I said to my doubting DH, “what do you mean, of course it was her baby!” ❤️😁
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Post by LiLi on Apr 29, 2021 21:51:14 GMT
When he called her a she, so specifically, it felt creepy. I understand what you are all saying. I would have called it an octopus, the octopus or made up some silly name etc. I felt like he was trying to humanize it, the octopus just acted like an octopus. They presented it as if it were something more. They acted as if it were a "personal" relationship, for example when he spoke of scaring it when he dropped his lense... Talking about how he had to make it trust him, spoke of swimming alone... Obviously not so if there was a camera crew. It felt like the emotional part was either weird, or fake.
I do understand that it was a female. I kind of felt like he was making it his weird lover by calling it she. I see my thoughts are way off from you all, but I did just find out someone I loved is a pedophile (it is so bad you guys have no idea) so perhaps that is coloring my view... I am in no way saying this guy is anything specific, I just got a creepy vibe. My bad, I know, already.
I can see my onion on this is different, compared to most, I must be a weirdo. I'm okay with that. ☺
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Post by LiLi on Apr 29, 2021 22:01:23 GMT
Are we all just ignoring the fact that most of us spent the whole time watching it wondering when he was going to bang the octopus? 😄 I know you're joking, but yeah... That's what I'm thinking! 🤭
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Post by bc2ca on Apr 29, 2021 22:03:33 GMT
We absolutely loved it, too.
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Post by elaine on Apr 29, 2021 22:45:15 GMT
When he called her a she, so specifically, it felt creepy. I understand what you are all saying. I would have called it an octopus, the octopus or made up some silly name etc. I felt like he was trying to humanize it, the octopus just acted like an octopus. They presented it as if it were something more. They acted as if it were a "personal" relationship, for example when he spoke of scaring it when he dropped his lense... Talking about how he had to make it trust him, spoke of swimming alone... Obviously not so if there was a camera crew. It felt like the emotional part was either weird, or fake. I do understand that it was a female. I kind of felt like he was making it his weird lover by calling it she. I see my thoughts are way off from you all, but I did just find out someone I loved is a pedophile (it is so bad you guys have no idea) so perhaps that is coloring my view... I am in no way saying this guy is anything specific, I just got a creepy vibe. My bad, I know, already. I can see my onion on this is different, compared to most, I must be a weirdo. I'm okay with that. ☺ I am so sorry, LiLi! ☹️ If I found out that about someone I loved, it would be devastating in many ways and would color how I viewed many different things, especially relationships.
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Post by yodutchess on Apr 29, 2021 23:40:06 GMT
Elaine, I am so sorry for your loss. We saw this movie last year and were in tears.
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Post by Frazzled Mom on Apr 30, 2021 7:53:08 GMT
I may be a horrible person. I watched this last night and came to a completely, different conclusion. Although, I can appreciate the beauty and tiny bit of scientific information. Why is this dude projecting human feelings on an octopus? Why does he call it a she? Why is he avoiding his life and ditching his family for this? It can't all possibly be exactly as it is portrayed. It isn't possible that there are so many cuts of him from a distance? There had to be more than just him involved in the recording process which makes a lot of the story portrayed, contrived. My kids and husband enjoyed it. I personally don't think it deserved an award. Was it just me? Or was the guys voice super annoying? Maybe I'm just cranky. 😋 Anecdotal evidence: Twice I have come into contact with octopus; both times I reached out and the octopus reached back and touched my finger. Facts: octopuses are super curious and it isn't rare for them to interact with, and recognize humans. You're not a horrible person and you're not alone. My DD watched it with a bunch of her DVM friends and they weren't impressed with the movie at all (especially the one who works with marine life), though they did agree it was visually stunning.
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Post by wordfish on Apr 30, 2021 12:50:54 GMT
I have a thing for octopus. I think it should be illegal to kill them because they are so smart. I watched this several months ago and cried and cried.
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Post by cme37 on Apr 30, 2021 14:17:03 GMT
I watched this last night and enjoyed it. But I was confused on how it was shot. Did he film this whole thing himself, and then a camera crew came in later to film those overhead shots for the documentary? And how did he hold his breath for that long, especially during the shark chase scene. The part where he is supposed to be this solitary film maker did not ring true to me. I still really really liked it and learned a lot about octopus.
ETA: I did not like Nomadland. At all. I don't understand the hype for it.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on May 2, 2021 1:39:17 GMT
We watched My Octopus Teacher tonight. I enjoyed it as a documentary and did learn a good bit from it, but can’t say I found it to be emotionally moving. The cinematography was spectacular and probably my favorite part.
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Post by mnmloveli on May 2, 2021 18:04:18 GMT
Just finished watching this. I thought the filming was awesome - WOW! Many scenes were touching between him and the octopus. I was surprised I didn’t cry since I cry at commercials.
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Post by chlerbie on May 2, 2021 19:29:45 GMT
I loved it. I saw a Twitter post that made me laugh...can't remember it exactly but it kind of went like this:
I loved My Octopus Teacher. But not as much as: My Jellyfish Barber My Lobster Podiatrist My Starfish Plumber
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Post by tanya2 on May 2, 2021 21:02:02 GMT
DH & I watched this on Friday night & loved it! But I couldn't get over that he was holding his breath the whole time. I understand that he said the kelp forest was too thick to wear a tank but then he only must have had mere minutes underwater each time. I'm not a diver at all so I couldn't stop wondering how this was happening and think about how much more footage he could have gotten if he had some kind of air supply
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