It turns out that people and underwater animals can be friends!

Mortimer 2022-03-22 09:02:19

This is a touching documentary about the friendship between man and octopus. Unexpectedly, underwater animals can also have feelings for people, and the spirituality of octopus is very high!

The South African father himself was filming animal documentaries, but he gradually lost interest and even spent two years of wasted time at home. By chance, he returned to diving, which he used to play as a child. Unexpectedly, in a free diving, I accidentally found an octopus. After confirming his eyes, South African father intuitively felt that this octopus was interesting, so he planned to photograph it every day. Throughout the year, South African father and octopus experienced life and death friendship, and finally witnessed her death after giving birth. South African father said that my eyes were wet.

The ones that impress me the most are the following snippets:

1. At the beginning, the octopus just stayed in the hole, staring at the South African father, but after a few days, the octopus stretched out the hand of friendship and stuck to the South African father's hand! A touch and an icebreaker are of historic and epoch-making significance. The situation is as if my family's beautiful short roots took the initiative to jump up and sit on my lap, so Wen Yu was so sweet. It turns out that undersea animals can form friendships with humans.

2. The octopus can not only spray ink, but also squat. For example, the octopus can be seen in the film wrapping itself with dead seaweed leaves, or using shells to build a temporary fortress to prevent the attack of pyjama shark. Humans are quick to become intelligent, and so are animals. Octopus reminded me: if you want to make progress, you must always put yourself in a state of war or stress; if you are too comfortable, people will easily fall.

3. Octopus needs to play! Not only children need to play, but even octopuses have the desire to play. I saw the school of fish swimming by, the silver light shone, the tentacles of the octopus waved, the school of fish spread out, and then quickly gathered. The octopus continued to call the thousand fish with four whiskers, and it was time for the fish to swim. What's even more interesting is that when the octopus realized that the South African father was there, it hurriedly swam over and stuck it on the South African father's chest, just like a daughter giving Dad a hug!

Someone asked South African dad, why do you go to the same place every day to dive, isn't it boring? South African father said: No, so I can notice the changes of the four seasons, these subtle differences are interesting. In order to achieve the ultimate in everything, we must start with the details.

The underwater world is colorful and fascinating. I don't know when I can hide in the water and be a free fish.

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My Octopus Teacher quotes

  • Craig Foster: What she taught me was to feel... that you're part of this place, not a visitor. That's a huge difference.

  • [first lines]

    Craig Foster: A lot of people say an octopus is like an alien. But the strange thing is, as you get closer to them, you realize that we're very similar in a lot of ways.