This one I watched on a friend's recommendation during a conversation about Oscar nominees. This one has been nominated for documentary of the year, by the time this posts, we'll know if my friend's prediction was right and it wins the top prize. To be honest, I had seen this one as I scrolled around Netflix and it held no real appeal. I hadn't heard anything about it nor knew what it was about, so I was content to just keep scrolling past. That, friends, was me making a mistake. I was entranced by this, right from the get go. I mean it is visually stunning, shot off the coast of South Africa and mostly underwater, aside from interviews with filmmaker Craig Foster, and surprisingly touching in a way I was not expecting.
A rough two years, found Foster completely burnt out and returning to free diving as a way of soothing his soul, what he found was an unlikely friendship with a octopus, who's den was in an underwater kelp forest where Foster had been diving. Prior to watching this I had zero knowledge about the octopus and I was blown away at her ability to change colour and shape to avoid detection from predators, not to mention how quickly she could strategize and think on her feet when she needed to while hunting and evading predators. I was fascinated from the beginning. It was just a hopeful and sweet story that I very much enjoyed and have been recommending to everyone..... as everyone has been recommending it to me.
I have two other Best Documentary nominees I can watch before the big night and I will make my prediction, which you will read well well after the show, but this one has high marks from me already.
I watched this on Netflix.
2 comments:
oh that sounds like something I should watch. Thank you for the tip!
You certainly should! It was excellent! Loved it.
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