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.

Raoul Morel, a shy young man without a fortune, is an instructor at a driving school. During a lesson, he is disturbed by the ravishing and capricious Lolita Perez, the wealthy daughter of a South American who, despite her father's opposition, wants to marry a seductive adventurer, Marcel d'Arcy, who covets her fortune. At his instigation, she plans to marry Raoul - a sham marriage - in order to gain possession of his fortune. She divorces him and remarries Marcel. But Lolita falls in love with Raoul, who has been warned of her machinations and refuses the marriage...
In My Octopus Teacher, documentary filmmaker Craig Foster models healthy masculinity by showing us a trusting, gentle, and emotionally fulfilling bond with an octopus.
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