Review: 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 / average rating: 9 / 10 / actor: Craig Foster / James Reed / country: South Africa / Release year: 2020
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Seeing all the positive reviews compelled me to write a review too, as I thought the high marks are highly unrepresentative of the documentary.
Essentially its 90 minutes of subjective narrative where very little new is learned and not much happens. Those who know even the smallest of bits of information about the wondrous phenomenon of the octopus will walk away with no new information, only that a depressed filmmaker apparently finds illumination through a relationship with an octopus. The idea is somewhat novel and romantic for sure, but, like the filmmaker himself when diving in the reef, he never really goes to any depths to convey anything interesting further than 'the octopus comes and touches my hand - she like me and i like her. We are left with the promise of some sort of natural wisdom imprinted in this ancient and seemingly alien being, and - which needs to be said, some beautiful underwater shots, but that is about as far as we go on this journey and the 'lesson' is sadly exactly the one you imagine at the start of the documentary - choose life, nature good, embrace the world around you, be humble etc.
Though through the lens of watching a personal story of a somewhat privileged white guy bummed out in a midlife crisis finding joy again by diving, relating to an octopus and through the animal finding a connection to the (natural) world, its not a bad thing in to have on in the background. Not great not terrible.
The film is about curiosity, the environment, sea life, animals (including the human animal) animal intelligence, friendship, evolution, persistence, family, physical fitness, education - and most of all - octopus. Minds are relatively blown. The cinema-photography is stunning, great background music; a technical feat of monumental proportions. And it's deeply emotional. I was pulled in. Never take the natural world for granted.
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