What attracts me most about this nature documentary is not the octopus's changeable predation strategies, not the astute avoidance of predators, but her intimate interaction with starring Craig. There is a scene in the film that made me particularly shocked and moved: After dozens of days of getting along, Octopus carefully observed from shrinking in the hole to gradually feeling that Craig was safe and trustworthy, so she came out of the hole, and she tentatively Craig reached out to Craig, Craig also reached out to her, and finally the tentacles made contact with the human hand, and her suction cup was attached to Craig's hand. This was a friendly handshake between humans and marine invertebrates. This kind of body Sexual contact made Craig feel a real connection, a connection with nature. After being together for hundreds of days, the relationship between Octopus and Craig became closer, and she would even wrap her entire body around Craig's hands, diving eyes, face, and naked chest. It is hard for me to imagine that people and other creatures can form such close bonds. It was this unseen connection that made Craig pay more and more attention to the octopus, regretted for scaring her away, excited for her successful predation, sweating for her encounter with predators, and for her child. The cub was moved by dedicating himself, and felt sad after she was taken away by a shark who was weak after giving birth...
Since the beginning of the development of science, capitalism, and instrumental rationality, human beings have put nature in opposition to themselves, and regarded all things as exploitable resources, not living beings. But this documentary brought me a personal experience that people and other species can also have silent communication and the establishment of friendship.
People regard themselves as the masters of nature, but do not think that they are actually just a part of nature, a member of which is closely related to other species.
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