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My Octopus Teacher
Documentary
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy intimate nature storytelling, patient observation, and emotionally sincere bonds between humans and wild animals.
- Tone
- contemplative, warm, bittersweet
- Payoff
- wonder, reflection
- Pacing
- meditative
- Intensity
- gentle
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- connection with nature, animal intelligence, trust, mortality
- Setting
- contemporary, coastal kelp forest and open ocean
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Netflix
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