My octopus teacher.-My octopus teacher

I watched a movie with my children this evening: My Octopus Teacher.

A photographer from South Africa returned home to the seaside at low tide and went diving in the seaweed forest in the sea every day. With the embrace of nature and the company of various marine creatures, his mood gradually calmed down.

One day, an accidental opportunity. He found a strange object, a ball made of shells and stones moving slowly on the bottom of the sea. It turned out to be an octopus, and the octopus sucked up these shells and stones with its own sucker and wrapped them in the body. Before looking carefully, the octopus got rid of these things and swam away quickly.

From then on, he began to pay attention to this octopus, and gradually discovered many details, even the cave where it was hiding. At the same time, he also found that this kind of octopus, a seemingly low-level mollusk, has amazing intelligence. This octopus is keenly aware of his existence, and the octopus is also watching him.

Octopus, as a creature living in a dangerous ocean, has a natural vigilance. The photographer watched carefully from a distance. But slowly the octopus began to get used to his existence, and it began to relax its vigilance bit by bit and get closer to the photographer bit by bit. Finally, one day, the octopus stretched out its tentacles and met the photographer. After a few days, the octopus even climbed on him and hugged him. They became friends.

Since then, photographers have spent a lot of time in close contact with octopus every day, observing its every move, watching it play, prey, avoid being hunted, and watching it change color and shape with the environment. Every day, he is surprised by the cleverness of this octopus. Every day, this octopus is like a teacher, showing him the wonder and mystery of nature. He also feels more and more that he has established a spiritual connection with this octopus.

He also worked hard to learn all kinds of knowledge about octopus and all kinds of scientific papers. This also verified what he saw, octopus, as a mollusk, has intelligence that ordinary animals don't have. But as a mollusk, its life cycle is relatively short.

After getting along for nearly a year, the photographer found that the female octopus had company. After mating, it began to stay motionless in the cave to lay eggs and hatch small octopus until it exhausted all its energy and life.

Finally, one day, it came to the last day of its life, and the sea took it out of its cave, and all kinds of fish and marine life began to eat away at its body ...?

At this point, the photographer's voice began to tremble, and I saw the eyes of the second child begin to wet.

The journey of life.

The film truly describes the friendship between an ordinary person and an octopus through simple but delicate records, trying to see this wonderful world from the perspective of octopus. It taught me to let go of my pride as a human being and feel the magic and power of nature humbly through the wisdom and wisdom displayed by a seemingly weak octopus. I think this is also a strange new perspective for children to feel the world.