How My Octopus Teacher Depicts Healthy Masculinity
In My Octopus Teacher, documentary filmmaker Craig Foster models healthy masculinity by showing us a trusting, gentle, and emotionally fulfilling bond with an octopus.

On the seventh day, there was rest. Until... Harrie walked into paradise! And indeed, Harrie Vermeulen is back again! Once more with a wildly hilarious and uniquely funny comedy. As always, Harrie, with his reckless and frenzied way of doing things, keeps making the wrong decisions. Amidst fluttering butterflies, gracefully colored flowers, and babbling waterfalls, Harrie once again creates a colossal chaos. The fig leaves are too small, and that doesn't bode well for Harrie's ludicrous appearance in Paradise!
In My Octopus Teacher, documentary filmmaker Craig Foster models healthy masculinity by showing us a trusting, gentle, and emotionally fulfilling bond with an octopus.
t’s relatable and heartbreaking all at once, and it’s impossible to watch Happy Together without reflecting on oneself. The film is stunning in every aspect, and is a vital piece of LGBTQ cinema.
This inspiring true story falls nothing short of filling the audience with a passion to strive for their wildest dreams.
It only seems to prove that when the company had their backs against the wall and needed an all pleasing, generic movie that had to make up for The Last Jedi, they chose to sacrifice almost everything that made their main protagonist interesting and that made her stand out as the strong female character that a generation of young movie goers was supposed to look up to. Instead, we were left with a Rey that was so much less than she could have been. And I guess that’s the real story of Rey and The Rise of Skywalker; they could have been so much more, but they were just more of the same.
This young adult movie focuses on relationships in this high school reunion.
Coralie Fargeat once said that “Being a woman is body horror,” and when you think about the ways we are taught to experience our own bodies, it becomes almost impossible to argue with her.