Hi all! I just turned on comments. Please let me know what your favorite octopus fact is and what you loved about the film.

I must admit I found myself deeply moved watching this, the fact that two completely different creatures can share a bond of absolute trust had me in tears and very humbled.

I was shocked and absolutely amazed at her obvious emotional maturity and the fact I could see and feel her emotions!! Mind was blown. Have watched it 3 times in 24 hrs. I see something different every time but I feel something different from her as well !! Amazing !!!

I have been raving about this movie ever since it came out. I was just blown away and so moved by the film. I would love to find out more about the octopus' ability to use other objects (like the shells) to camouflage or protect themselves. Lastly, have you ever even heard of an octopus jumping on the back of a shark to scare it away? That was wild.

Nice video Mel. This movie was like a warm blanket on a sunny day with a cooling breeze. I enjoyed My Octopus Teacher very much.

One of my favorites to watch. I recommend this to people who like to watch documentaries.

I love how excited you are telling us all this 🐙🙂

Awesome information! Thank you. The more I learn about octopuses the more I realize how fascinating they are.

This documentary is truly epic ... I will never again eat calimari!! This creature was so perceptive and intelligent, I was amazed. Love to all involved in the documentary and I am the richer for this info.

I LOVE your enthusiasm! Fun to watch. Thanks.

Saw the film last evening. Loved it. So refreshing to see a genuine and heartfelt film.

This review has HEART! Mel, you are so excited and that is really infectious. My students will love this. Thank You

Loved the documentary and it made me tear up! Just stumbled on to your channel and LOVE your enthusiasm!

Very informative Mel! Thank you for sharing this info and keep up the great work

Thank you for all explanations. I cried so much at the end...Three hearts ? Not bad....Thank you again.

I love your passion and excitement !

Hey, don't do that to me talking about the movie and getting emotional and touching like that... Your eyes and voice makes my cry all over again hahahahahahaha. Best double feature, the documentary and your video. Thank you so so much. Hugs from Brazil.

Thank you for putting out this cool video!

The documentary is mesmerizing! I was begging my friend to watch it for about 2 weeks ❤️

Saw the film! Excellent! I love documentaries! Cool part of the film is he includes his son in his experience and his son learns of the amazing animal , and he learns compassion, respect, for all living creatures. Great review Mel and loved your sharing your knowledge / insight into these amazing creatures. Amazing how animals and plants adapt to their surroundings. We humans - nah !!! No you weren’t talking too fast cause you weren’t boring. Loved your enthusiasm.

I'm here after watching the film! I was deeply moved by it. Thanks for your review 😄

Thanks for the info. Fascinating! I loved the film. 🐙🥰

I can feel her enthusiasm when talking about what she loves

Saw it last night. Amazing! Brilliant!🐙♥️

OMG......you are so adorable! Just learned about this film and am so excited to watch it! Cheers!

I've never seen such passion and cuteness in an informarive video. I really enjoy it keep it up

I loved My Octopus Teacher, thank you for the fun facts!

Great video. I didn't know about Latin words and the part about ending those with an "i" for plural. Thanks for a great video.

Thanks, I'm gonna watch it tonight!🙏🐙

Yeah I saw the film it's one of the best documentaries I've seen it a long time love it

Great tidbit / fun fact on the pluralization of octopus is NOT octopi! Who knew?! ....you did =) Thank you. Luv'n your most informative review❣️

Wow! I did not know that octopuses are color blind! I’ve learned a lot about them - but not that. So cool! I can’t fathom how they match camouflage so brilliantly like they do - mind boggling!

I watch the documentary last night and sent the trailer to friends. Your video was below it. Your enthusiasm is infectious! I had previously read The Soul of An Octopus by Sy Montgomery which went into some detail about the connection she had with an individual octopus.

Toward the end it was questioned how they can be color blind yet apply colour when camouflaging. The reason is that their skin contains the pigment proteins found in eyes, making it responsive to light.

When I was watching it, I realised I can't eat calamari ever again. And when I'm next in Sinai, watching Bedouin women out on the reef catching calamari and whacking them dead on the rocks... OMG. Amazing film, not least for the photography - on land and underwater. So inspiring. (And now I so appreciate holidays on the beach as a kid in Mombasa playing around in the rocky pools. In Sussex out in the fields with cows all day. And all the other close encounters with Nature.)

You are adorable. Thank you for the information

Was amazing, heartbreaking at the end but this was her nature,she served the forest until her last breath.

Loved this film. Watched it twice..Cried at the end.. both times. ❤️

they are amazing creatures, they have superior problem solving skills.

🍆 arm. Had me giggle a little. This review was so energetic. Thank you. My children and I watched this when it first came out. We all cried at the end. Then watched it again, once a day for three days in a row.

I am lucky enough to visit 5 octopuses in my volunteer job at an aquarium. We just added a cute little baby California Two Spot, and it is so cool to watch! I had no idea that an octopus esophagus goes through its brain. The other thing I learned was that it has a raspy tongue to work on the shells of crustaceans. Their intelligence never ceases to amaze me, and I'm always learning new things as I try to answer questions to our guests. Thanks for sharing your knowledge on octopuses.

This video info was awesome 🙏

Thank you for sharing your added fast-facts. Your tidbits, along with the film, enlightened me to many new facts about octopuses (NOT octopi). What fascinating creatures! My favorite newly learned fact was finding out that they have the ability to develop a unique connection with a human. Watching Craig cuddle with his sea-pal was so very, very sweet, however seeing her seemingly enjoy the intimate interaction was even more endearing. It saddened me to learn how the female's lifespan is cut short due to her selflessness and necessity to procreate, the ultimate sacrifice. Per your last question regarding how people can still eat these wise creatures (and other living beings): I HAVE NO CLUE! As I see it, they most certainly deserve to live and thrive just as we do. So if you should ever unlock that specific mystery, please share the answer, as I would really like to know also🐙🕉✌

I love how you're so excited about these octopus facts.

Off topic but Mel is such a natural beauty with her awesome blue hair! Thanks Mel, for making my interest grow for this movie. I'm gonna watch it now!🤗

Life changing. Honestly.

Had no clue they couldnt see color! Its amazing they can match colors without seeing the color. Theres gotta be more to it than what we understand. Bc red, green, blue would all look the same under black and white wouldn't it??

I adore that film/documentary

yes we just watched it was amazing. I'm sad they never named her.

I love this film!

VIBRATION. they see colors through feeling vibrations. Each color has another vibration level.

Great information. Do not try cuddle a blue ring octopus in Australia they can kill you.

fine WISDOM

Hola love you description of the movie and the octopus. I swim 6am in that area. Is life experience best for me 10 to 13 D.

"Do octpuses have an anus? Great question!" ......lol....just what I was wondering when I woke up this morning! LOVE your enthusiasm!

Loved your video. You need your own TV show. Please contact the BBC immediately. David Attenborough has to retire eventually!

just watched it and it was amazing. and even tho the octopus was beatifull, i couldnt even touch it. im scared of them.

I would have built an aluminum diuble shield shell for her, after the shark encounter!

What do you think, why is the title called my octopus teacher?

it is fine...they are very clean...

Wow so many times.

I never eat again 🐙

Fist-screw is how an octopus mates ?

Octopus is a Greek word meaning eight feet. Just to add to the review. Great great movie.

I dont get on how a colour blind creature could mimic such a colorful objects.

Oque o filme me trás é a incrível força do amor ,suplantando os instintos e a mente raciona,l e se pensar bastante sobre isto só pode haver um Deus que habita em todo ser vivo e que este Deus que esta em nós supera com força incomparavel nosso aspecto instintivo e racional assim com nos surpreende no comportamento de muitos indivíduos das diversas espécies de animais.

We were taught that an Octopus has arms or legs not tentacles as a cuttlefish does.

I appreciate the movie - very cool! The guy spends OVER A YEAR intermingling... I hope other people don't start trying to "be friends" with an octopus. The damage we humans can do! Please, for people thinking about attempting a meeting, just watch the movie and leave them alone (be satisfied). 🥴

Millions of years of evolution...some things you can't explain.

"its his penis arm". Lol crude but def gets the point across.

I’m color blind. Am I an octopus? 🤣

i asked that too, how did he know it was a girl?

He could have safe her at the end.. when she was weak, why not?

If the Octapus dies I can't watch it.

I did _not_ like " *My Octopus Teacher* " because it was awful and was an excellent example of human exceptionalism. I could go into details as to why I didn't like this movie and why I'm incredibly surprised that a professional marine biologist _did_ like it instead of being disgusted by it, but I won't because people far more motivated than I have done it far better than I could. Maggie May does the best job at explaining how I feel about it because I agree with her pov 100%. Minus the sarcasm of course: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rc6SZ9if187dZGg.html

I really cannot believe he didn't "shoe" the sharks especially on the first encounter when he had the chance. ( I would have speared them) Stating he didn't want to disturb the "natural process".... yet there are crustacean Wranglers and other humans involved with releasing crab and lobster for the "natural" hunting scene sequences

I'm sorry but this all makes me wanna watch squidbillies

All this comments about the dude and the octopus having a bond, they have no bond this is grizzly man all over again is just a weird guy trying to give anthropomorphic qualities to an animal and assume the animal is going to perceive reality the same way a human does, just to justify his paraphilia and imagine somehow this poor animal is consenting to be harassed this way. Life is not a Disney movie, this is just a weird docu about a weird dude harassing an innocent octopus probably for sexual reasons

Octopii.Octopus.. not octopuses ;)

Interesting facts, but why not illustrate them with visuals? It would have been way more instructive and compelling to be seeing all these aspects of octopuses than just watching a human being the whole time.

He should have made friends with the sharks too they maybe had calamari parties to go to

Spoiler alert, all animals are sentient beings with some level of intelligence which is why everyone should be vegan. No moral difference between eating an octopus, a dog, cat, pig, goat etc.

God loves you so much that He sent His Holy Son Jesus from heaven to earth, to be born of a virgin, to grow up and die on a cross for our sins, and to be put into a tomb 3 days and rise from the dead the third day, and He (Jesus) went back up to heaven. We must receive Sinless Jesus sincerely to be God's child(John 1:12).After we get saved by grace through faith in Christ, if we truly love the Lord Jesus Christ, then we will obey Jesus(John 14:15). Mark 1:15 "And saying, the time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: Repent ye, and believe the gospel." Jesus said in John 14:15 "If you love Me, keep My commandments. "There's a real hell. It says in Revelation 21:8 "But for the cowardly, & unbelieving, and abominable, & murderers, & immoral persons and sorcerers & idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone..." Please sincerely receive Holy Jesus and put your true faith and trust in Him today and please repent.

Um, Sorry; but "My Octopus Teacher " is not, NOT a documentary ! The film is just a cute fabrication; sorta like "underwater Bambi" I grant you that it was clever and creative. But lets get real; it was also a totally dreamed up, oh so heart wrenching, FANTASY story. The octopus did NOT spontaneously gravitate to the man. Watch really closely when the man has his first encounters with the octopus; you'll see pieces of shrimp that are floating in the water that proves that the guy WAS JUST FEEDING the creature. Come on Mel; the "key biology" that you missed was that " the poor lonely octopus" wasn't reaching out for the man's companionship; it just knew that a free meal was coming when the man was present

It's a decent fantasy movie at best and an awful and highly unprofessional documentary at worst. First of all, the documentarist forcibly interacts with and influences the subject, nullifying the pretense that the documentary is about the octopus. The true subject of the "documentary" is the egomaniacal documentarist. Secondly, he ascribes human characteristics to the octopus, with no basis in reality. The documentarist is just projecting his perceptions, emotions, thoughts, and even insecurities onto the poor animal, which he stalks for a whole year. Any behavioural biologist that sees this movie will go into shock. Forcibly trying to pretend that animals have human characteristics and thought is only detrimental to actually understanding them and their own intelligence. In this documentary you learn almost NOTHING about octopi, and A LOT about the mental issues of the true protagonist, which prefers stalking an octopus instead of spending time with his family. Thirdly, it sets a horrible example and a disgusting precedent of meddling with wildlife. This will only inspire people to go out and try to "befriend" wild animals causing great harm. The golden principle of scuba diving, biological field work, eco-tourism, documentarism, etc. is always "leave things as if you were never there and DO NOT INTERFERE". This is the opposite of that, and frankly disgusting. Sure, he is well intentioned, but this nonsense already caused direct harm to the octopus by facilitating a shark attack. Had this bloke not disturbed the octopus, it would not have left its burrow. Ironically, during the shark attack is when he decides not to interfere, only to start literally feeding it later. Absolute hypocrisy, and horrible behaviour. Forcibly interacting with wildlife is ALWAYS a bad thing: it affects their behaviour, their attitude towards humans, affects predators and scavengers and the ecosystem at large, and always has unforeseen consequences. Interacting with wildlife is nearly always bad, unless we are talking about removing plastic bags from turtles or something, which would be a problem we introduced in the first place. If we truly want to admire nature in all its awe inducing complexity, and keep it that way, we have to do so PASSIVELY at a distance! The fact that a marine biologist not only condones such behaviour but praises the resulting art film as excellent is frankly frightening

the plural is Octopi ..... perhaps you shouldn't be right in your face in the camera... really off-putting... sorry , enjoyed the film and I also am a biologist and yeah they missed some things but it was excellent and make your own movie if you think it's not sufficient :D

Great lesson, thanks!. (Myself, I’m partial to the Greek 𝘰𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘴!)