Spoiler alert: The male director didn't have a relationship with the heroine Octopus, he just watched her die quietly.
This film tells the story of the director who goes to shoot the same octopus every day, sublimates and beautifies his daily life of tracking each other through editing, music, interspersed narration, flashback, and montage, and then sells the secretly recorded small video to make a name for himself. There were a few sick groans in the middle, how did he face the midlife crisis and finally overcome it and start to be the best himself.
The protagonist, octopus, was evasive from the beginning, and even moved because of the appearance of the director, gradually accepting him and trusting him. This also gives stalkers more opportunities for sneak shots.
So does this kind of cross-species trust arouse the director's inner humanity? Hard to say. From the beginning, he knew that there were other predators in this waters, and his shooting that disturbed the natural habitat of octopuses would put her in danger. After many video evidences showed that he would not "intervene", and it is very likely that he had already planned to photograph these cruel plots. Anyway, I watched it very worried, and wanted to abandon the drama a few times in the middle.
The film did not write "no octopus was harmed in the making of this film" at the end. Well, it doesn't deserve it.
It is true that without this work, I am afraid I would not care too much about the lives of the little octopuses. But because of this, it can't accept its hypocritical and cold nature.
The director will also raise some philosophical questions at the beginning, which will trigger the audience to think, such as "I'm thinking about what she is thinking" or "Will she have a dream". I think everyone's answer may be different, but it is undeniable that this octopus is wise and perceptive, and she knows that she can trust the creature in front of her.
Since octopuses are not social animals, they probably don't have the concept of friends. But she doesn't know how to communicate with other fish, crabs, and seaweeds. Just interacting with this director can be described as a kind of detachment, not a friend better than a friend.
When she dies, lying alone on the seabed and seeing the director who is gradually swimming in the distance, will she feel relieved that her friend will appear by her side? Would she feel a trace of heartbreak for this "friend" stopping not far away, calmly photographing her own death?
Before filming her, the director had a bad time, it can be described as haunting. Now, he has gained both fame and fortune, and she was bitten and torn by a shark, and she was smashed by the saw-like mouth of a starfish. She was already dead. It's hard to say what he should do better. After all, to him, this has never been just an invertebrate. Lu Xun said, "This child will die in the future." She is not dead, how can he be born again.
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