Douban 9.4 points, after watching the documentary I no longer want to eat octopus, they are too smart!

The Cape of Good Hope in South Africa is located in the southwest tip of Africa.

Despite its beautiful name, which means "Cape of Good Hope," this part of the ocean is one of the most intimidating places on Earth.

The ocean currents collide head-on here, causing a year-round surge, like a cliff-like waves surging up, wave heights of 15 to 20 meters, like a wall of tsunamis.

Together with the rotating waves caused by the polar winds, when several kinds of waves are superimposed on each other, the sea conditions are even worse, and it becomes the world's most dangerous navigation section, known as the "Cape of Storms".

It is in this hostile environment that Netflix has produced a super-high-point documentary, with a Douban rating of 9.4, which tells a moving story.

My Octopus Teacher

My Octopus Teacher

The depths of the ocean hold so many secrets that mankind has spent thousands of years exploring them. We have discovered only the tip of the iceberg.

There is more to this underwater world than we know, and the landscape is incredibly beautiful.

Swimming through it is like traveling through a space world, seeing creatures you can't see on land and their unique ways of being.

The variety of those mysterious creatures, living below sea level, is amazing.

He was determined to capture this vast expanse of beauty and creatures on film for a wider audience.

But in middle age, Craig developed severe anxiety, suffered from chronic insomnia, and was unable to control his emotions.

He was constantly tired, had low energy, his relationship with his family was deteriorating, and his uncontrollable irritability made it difficult for him to sleep for months.

So Craig went back to where he grew up, to adjust himself and control his emotions.

Slowly, he began to enjoy living and working in the underwater world, and he regained the courage to hold a camera and take photos of the fascinating world under the sea.

One day, wandering around, Craig spotted something strange.

The top and bottom were all shells, put together in a weird pasting.

While Craig was puzzled, suddenly the shells all fell apart, and an octopus scurried out of them and took off.

Leaving Craig and a few fish in a daze ......

What does it want?

Why is it using the shells as cover for a house?

Why is it running away?

It's because of this moment that Craig becomes intrigued by this octopus and decides to look into it.

In Craig's years of experience, this is a female octopus (we can call it an octopus girl), not very old.

So as not to alarm or disturb the octopus girl, he carefully places his camera gear next to the octopus' burrow and then leaves himself, letting only the camera record .....

At first, the octopus girl is so wary that she hides herself in a variety of ways, such as carrying two shells as a shield, and then suddenly attacking the camera.

Then she realized that the camera wasn't responding at all, and she grew bold and started to molest the camera, actively "pushing" it.

After several pushes, she realizes that the camera doesn't react at all, and that the big, moving guy behind it (Craig) isn't very aggressive.

One day, Craig tentatively reaches out his hand, and Octopus Girl responds by extending her tentacles, touching Craig's hand with them as if to say hello to each other.

After the touch, the octopus girl dropped its full guard and no longer left its tentacles behind in preparation for retreat.

A special relationship of trust was tacitly created.

In front of Craig, the octopus girl unreservedly demonstrated her survival wisdom.

At times it drifted like seaweed, at times it used its tentacles to walk like a human on two legs, and at times it scooted forward like a shell.

The octopus is a fairly intelligent animal that mimics the movements of all kinds of creatures, and even adapts its movements and body color to its environment.

It's no wonder that some people say that octopuses are extraterrestrials hiding in the human world.

When it comes to hunting, the octopus girl has amazing speed and strength, and can instantly catch small fish passing by.

But when it comes to large, fast-moving lobsters, this hunting strategy doesn't seem to work so well.

Craig is surprised to find that this is when the octopus girl actually uses him as a barrier, covering herself to hunt.

It will pretend to pass between Craig and the lobster as if nothing has happened, and then, after getting close, it will suddenly drop a net so that the lobster can't run away.

After a while, the octopus girl completely adapted to Craig's presence, and it often followed Craig, like a puppy.

But this time Craig accidentally dropped a shot, and the octopus girl was suddenly startled and quickly fled without looking back ......

This frustrates Craig so much that he blames his recklessness for scaring the octopus girl.

He desperately wants to find the octopus girl, but it's not easy in the middle of the ocean.

Craig begins his own frantic search, disguising himself as an octopus detective and thinking octopus-style about where he would go to hide after being frightened.

He hypothesizes dozens of routes, and different ways to hide, and then goes looking for them one by one.

The sky was the limit, and he finally saw the octopus girl again.

When the octopus girl saw him, she raised her tentacles.

She swam toward Craig and covered his hand tightly, and the two of them shook hands in excitement, like longtime friends.

After a while, Craig needed to surface for air, and he swam upstream, and the octopus girl actually didn't let go of her tentacles and followed him to the surface.

They played together on the surface for a long time before finally bidding a fond farewell.

But the undersea world is always cruel, the weak are the strongest, and things go to hell in a handbasket.

Not far from the octopus girl's cave lies a nest of sharks (robe sharks).

On this particular day, one of the sharks caught the scent and swam over, biting the octopus girl, increasing its strength with death rolls and trying to drag her out whole.

The octopus girl desperately grabbed a rock in the cave to keep from being dragged out, but one of its tentacles was bitten off ......

Shark Girl lost one of her tentacles, though it wasn't bloody and gory, and the broken tentacle was as limp as cotton wool.

For the next while, Octopus Girl lay dying, her skin turning a ghastly white and weak.

Craig thought it wouldn't last much longer, and came to see it for days on end, only to leave sadly.

A week later, when he went to see the octopus girl, it had actually grown tender new tentacles! A tiny tentacle had grown!

It's a miracle of life, and it's stunning!

Craig is happy and sad, he's happy that the octopus girl is alive again, but he also knows that she won't live much longer, octopuses tend to live for only a year ......

Shortly thereafter, the fully recovered octopus girl frolicked with the fish and was as enthusiastic as a dog, offering to come up and play, hugging Craig tightly.

On the 324th day of his acquaintance with Octopus Girl, Craig realized that he had a male octopus by his side, and appeared to be starting a family of his own.

But for female octopuses, starting a family and having children is the end of life.

They will give all the nutrition of their body to the octopus eggs, they no longer hunt and no longer eat, and use all their energy to guard the octopus eggs to hatch, and watch the children being born with all their strength. ......

Finally, all the eggs hatched, probably hundreds of thousands.

By the time Craig gets to the little octopus cave again, he realizes that the octopus girl has been washed out, and she's too weak to resist the current with her strength.

All sorts of little fish swam by, wanting a plate of octopus dinner.

The octopus girl is powerless and weak to resist the attack of the fish, breathless, can only passively do the last defense.

After a struggle, it collapsed limply, no longer able to resist.

At this point, a shark swam by, took the octopus girl, and disappeared into the kelp forest. ......

Goodbye, never to be seen again, Craig never saw the octopus girl.

However, the octopus girl is like a teacher, to the mid-life crisis of Uncle Craig to teach a lesson, the matter of whisking away, deep hiding and name ......

Craig said, "It made me realize how precious the wild world is

You go into the water and there's a sense of freedom, and all of your troubles, worries, and anxieties disappear

You realize that All life is important and how fragile it is

All life on this planet, the life of everything, is fragile

I fell in love with her and the wild world she represents

She taught me to feel the world

You are an important member of the planet, not just a simple one. important member of this planet, not just a passerby. ......"

Life is wonderful, but also so fragile,

As the netizen said, "a flower and a leaf, endless life, everything has a spirit and beauty, the years are short but glorious".

Everything in the world is a drop in the ocean, time passers by are rushed through, but can live out the incomparable shining light ......