Whether it is from the various production and shooting skills shown in the film, or the spiritual core conveyed by the film, this is undoubtedly a very good film. I guess that's exactly what a good documentary looks like in my aesthetic sense.
From the point of view of film and television production, the texture of the film is very good, especially the underwater lens uses slow motion, and the sea surface under the refraction of light and shadow gives people a poetic beauty. The lens design of the film is quite beautiful. The hand-held camera used by the director during diving and the interviews shot in the later period alternate with each other. The changes of scenes and the transition of scenes are natural and harmonious, which together promote the progress of the story layer by layer. The film's use of the soundtrack is also excellent. The film uses a lot of soothing and melodious orchestral music to show the magic and beauty of the ocean world. In several scenes where octopuses and other sea creatures chase each other, the music is tense and high. The director's choice of melodious and elegant orchestral music as the soundtrack is very appropriate, and the rational use of music shows the atmosphere well.
I am quite impressed with the ideological core conveyed by the film. The name of the film is very interesting. Why did the director call the octopus a teacher? At the 44th minute of the film, the director mentioned: "She taught me to empathize with others/others, especially wild animals." I think empathy is something that is very scarce in us modern people, and we are used to it. Hierarchy is either the ruler or the dominated; it is also accustomed to dividing camps, and there is no factual right or wrong as long as there is a position. Even the word "empathy" has become narrow, "Why do you have empathy with XX?" It has become a question of the soul that interrogates and examines the empathy of others. But at this moment, the director has regained his awareness of empathy because of the wonderful bond with Miss Octopus. I think he is very lucky. Perhaps it was also at this moment that he opened the door to understanding human beings, nature, and life. "I fell in love with her, I fell in love with wild animals because of her, and I fell in love with everything because of her." But at the same time, she told me "You are a part of this place, not a visitor." The director's sentence The words touched me very much. He fell in love with wild animals because he fell in love with Miss Octopus, fell in love with everything and fell in love with himself. Because, "I" also belongs to all the things I fell in love with, "I" is not a tourist. The core of the film is completely sublimated in this sentence, because what Teacher Octopus taught me is love itself. At the beginning of the film, I was decadent and dazed, but in the repeated contact with Mr. Octopus, I felt wonderful throbbing in my heart again and again, and I regained the pursuit of life itself in Mr. Octopus' life cycle from childhood to reproduction to death. .
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