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.

It's a film of highways, tourists on transhumance, concrete picnic tables, queues for toilets, warm melons and carwashes. It's the film of a man who wants to leave and a little boy who holds him back. It's the summer movie.
In My Octopus Teacher, documentary filmmaker Craig Foster models healthy masculinity by showing us a trusting, gentle, and emotionally fulfilling bond with an octopus.
Inuit girls use their Inuit tradition to hunt down alien monsters, enough said.
There were too many irrelevant parts that could have been shortened, and too many characters that didn't advance the plot. Either way, some things didn't add up. This was just another played out plot with little, if any, originality in it. By the end of the film, I wasn't happy that she finally got her freedom, I was happy that it was finally over.
A direct fall into the white savior narrative
The sequel to the 2021 remake of the same name continues from where we last left off in this spooky adventure.