Recently, the beaches in Turkey appeared a patch of mucus (sea snot), which is increasingly spreading over the water. The widespread mucus layer on the Turkish coast causes serious damage to the country’s marine life and fishermen. (Source: Reuters) Sea snot is a green mud that is formed naturally when algae are over-nutriented due to hot weather and polluted water environment. The phenomenon was first detected in Turkey in 2007 and then in the Aegean Sea near Greece. The latest outbreak in the Sea of ​​Marmara near Istanbul is believed to be the largest in history. (Source: Reuters) Experts believe that the large amount of mucus that has appeared recently is due to a combination of environmental pollution and global warming, which accelerates the growth of algae that cause the slime. Meanwhile, President Erdogan said that the problem of untreated sewage being discharged directly into the sea was the cause of this outbreak of marine mucus. (Source: Reuters) When algae grow out of control in the spring, as we’ve seen this year, they block sunlight and cause declines, says biology professor at Istanbul University Muharrem Balci. oxygen for fish and marine life. (Source: Reuters) This mucous membrane covers the sea surface like a canvas. After a while, they sink, covering the seabed ecosystem and harming many species of creatures. When this process is over, they will appear to smell like a spoiled egg. This phenomenon can cause poisoning to sea clams and creatures such as crabs. (Source: Reuters) Professor Bayram Ozturk of the Turkish Marine Research Agency said that due to the overgrowth of the mucus layer, several species are endangered, including oysters, mussels and starfish. “This is a real disaster,” he said. (Source: Reuters) According to environmental engineer Cevahir Efe Akcelik, mucus could cover the sea during the summer if authorities do not take urgent measures. Studies show that mucus stays not only on the surface but also at depths between 25-30 meters. (Source: Reuters) Divers report that large numbers of fish and other species in the affected area are being wiped out by suffocation. This phenomenon has a significant impact on the lives of fishermen. Boats passing through the Sea of ​​Marmara had to navigate through the gray mud, while some fishermen were unable to fish because the mud clogs their engines and nets. (Source: Reuters) Mehmet Soyolcu (43 years old), a fourth generation fisherman in the Sea of ​​Marmara, said that in the past, it took two hours to pull a fishing net at sea, but now it takes ten hours, not counting the cost of fuel. materials and other operating costs. Every day, the operating costs are getting higher and higher, and the fish are less and less. (Source: Reuters) Some fishermen will raise prices to cover their losses, but that won’t help either because people fear the seawater might contaminate the fish in Marmara. At the fish market, more and more customers avoid buying fish and seafood since information about the mucus layer appeared. This makes the fishermen lose income from fishing, life becomes more difficult. (Source: Reuters) Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city with about 16 million inhabitants, and five other provinces, factories and industrial centers border the sea. As a result, this outbreak has had a severe impact on the ecosystem and fisheries in the region. (Source: Reuters) The Sea of ​​Marmara is a sea that stretches 281 km from the Northeast to the Southwest and is 80 km wide at its widest. This sea is connected to the Black Sea through the Bosphorus, also known as the Istanbul Strait in the Northeast. President Erdogan fears the problem will be very serious if the mucus spreads to the Black Sea. (Source: Reuters) The Turkish government has deployed a team of experts to examine the source of pollution in the sea. Workers are now trying to use nets to remove mucus, but their efforts have so far been largely ineffective. (Source: Reuters) Not only around the Sea of ​​Marmara, but the adjacent Black Sea and Aegean Sea regions were also affected by this mucus outbreak. (according to Reuters)

The key to the success of seaweed farming is its growing commercial potential. Illustration: sciencefriday. A new study argues that growing a sufficient number of green seaweeds can help reduce pollution, absorbing most of the harmful waste. The study’s co-author, Phoebe Racine, said the thesis was just an early idea and implementation would take time, but given the lack of progress in other aspects, “there was no other option.” in addition to considering alternative methods”. Racine, a researcher at the University of California at Santa Barbara, says growing a variety of seaweed species in less than 1 percent of the Gulf of Mexico’s waters could help the United States meet pollution reduction goals that are already out of reach. . She and her colleagues mapped the suitable area for seaweed cultivation in the Gulf, and the suitable area could be more than 38,500 square kilometers. The Gulf of Mexico is being choked with agricultural and municipal waste. In May 2019, the Mississippi River discharged an average of more than 5,000 tons of nitrates and 800 tons of phosphorus into the Gulf of Mexico, the highest levels in 40 years. These excess nutrients from farm fertilizers and animal waste in the Midwest robs the oceans of oxygen off the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, fueling toxic algae blooms that have led to the so-called “dead zone”. Eutrophication (also known as eutrophication) is when there are too many nutrients in the pond/lake such as nitrate, phosphorus, which exceed the self-regulating capacity of the pond/lake, causing dense growth of plant and animal death due to lack of oxygen. To environmental experts, this problem seems intractable. Called eutrophication, dead zones are proliferating all over the world. There are more than 700 coastal areas worldwide that are “dead zones” or negatively impacted by currents. While the United States bears the bulk of agricultural waste, municipal wastewater is the main culprit in South America, Asia, and Africa. Annually, they cause economic losses of $3.4 billion in Europe and the United States alone by affecting tourism and fishing resources; while reducing property values, water treatment and adverse health effects. Over the past 10 years, 85 communities in the United States have spent a total of more than $1 billion to prevent or treat toxic algal blooms. Among the hardest hit areas is at the mouth of the Mississippi River, where the continued discharge of domestic waste from the heart of the United States has destroyed the local seafood and tourism industries. The Mississippi River empties into the Gulf of Mexico, carrying fertilizer and livestock waste from Midwestern farms. Photo: Bloomberg. Growing seaweed is considered as one of the green solutions to solve this problem. Seaweed farming dates back to 1,700 years ago in China. Today, countries like Indonesia and the Philippines, along with China and South Korea, lead the world in this area. In South Korea, where aquaculture has grown by 300% in the past 30 years, an intensive effort has proven its usefulness as a waste reduction tool. According to one study, farms that grow three major seaweed species and two shellfish species (all filter feeds without additional feed) accounted for 5.7% of carbon dioxide and 8.6% of carbon dioxide emissions. nitrogen emissions from all wastewater treatment plants in Korea. The key to the success of seaweed farming is its growing commercial potential. These aquatic plants can absorb excess nitrogen and phosphorus, turning it not only into food for humans, but also expanding a range of other commercial uses. The most commonly grown seaweeds include red or brown algae or algae. Some are used to make culinary thickeners or jellies for culturing bacteria in the lab. Others are dried into sheets for sushi rolls. While sugar kelp can be used as a sweetener, kelp is also used in toothpaste, shampoo, frozen foods, and even pharmaceuticals. Making seaweed farms profitable will be an important consideration to promote them as an agricultural and municipal waste treatment solution. Asia currently has a very strong demand for seaweed. Human consumption, which includes everything from sushi rolls to broths to salads, is the largest market for harvested seaweed. But growing demand can also be seen in the cosmetic and fertilizer industries, as well as aquafeeds. However, mass aquaculture faces a number of significant obstacles, particularly its labor-intensive nature. Globally, the demand for seaweed is forecast to double to $30 billion by 2025. However, in the United States, the seaweed market is relatively small. Gretchen Grebe, an aquaculture scientist at the Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, says seaweed farming in the US is largely “in the R&D phase.” “Using seaweed farming to remediate any large amounts of nutrient pollution would require significant expansion — the current scale of farming wouldn’t even matter,” says Grebe. In the United States, states have different regulations regarding aquaculture licensing. While it’s relatively easy to get a seaweed farm permit in Maine and Alaska, in California it requires meeting a stack of overlapping regulations. Bailey Moritz, Program Manager of the World Wildlife Fund, said: “Offshore activities hold promise. Our goal is to see seaweed growth that will have meaningful impacts [đối với sự suy giảm chất dinh dưỡng], and scale is needed for that.” But large-scale offshore seaweed farming is still at least a decade away from taking place in the US, and only when biofuels, bioplastics and animal feed are generated enough. need. Seaweed holds great promise, Grebe said, but scientists are quick to point out that the main driver is the imperative to reduce watershed waste inputs. “We are asking a lot of seaweed farmers to treat the nutritional waste that we dump into the Gulf,” she concludes.

For centuries, apple growers in Japan’s Aomori Prefecture have been creating beautiful heirloom apples using the mojie ringo technique. The process is pretty simple, which basically means exposing the apple to sunlight for a period of time and then applying stencils to ensure that certain parts of the apple peel are discolored. Usually, mojie ringo apples are decorated with messages and symbols of good luck and prosperity, and given as gifts. Large apple varieties like Mutsu or Stark Jumbo are best suited for the mojie ringo technique, as they provide more surface area for intricate designs. The apples using the mojie ringo technique are extremely beautiful. Preparations begin in January, with a pruning operation, to ensure that the remaining flowers receive plenty of sunlight. Growers then use soft wands to hand-pollinate each apple tree flower, and then when the fruit begins to form, they are covered with a laminated plastic bag to both protect the berries from Pests just block sunlight. Keeping apples in the dark for long periods of time increases their sensitivity to light, so when they remove the plastic bags, they begin to produce anthocyanins, a component that gives the skin its red color. In the final stage of the mojie ringo process, stencils are applied over the surface of the apple to ensure that only the skin around the stencils turns red. The stencils are removed during harvesting, revealing the almost white skin underneath. Stencils need to be flexible, as the fruit continues to grow, and otherwise, the style may suffer. According to Culture Trip, the Mojie Ringo technique was perfected by Aomori farmer Haruo Iwasaki, father of Chisato Iwasaki, one of today’s most talented apple artisans. Although the mojie ringo technique may seem quite simple, it requires a lot of work and patience over the long term, and for many growers the effort and attention are insignificant economically. That’s why the old tradition is slowly fading away, only a few Aomori gardens still keep this technique. The mojie ringo technique is also very popular in China and other Asian countries under the name of “tattooing apples”.

“The river that escaped from heaven” Cano Cristal. Cano Cristal (Colombia) The Canõ Cristal is a natural river located in the Sierra de La Macarena National Park, in the La Macarena region (Colombia). It is world famous as the river of five colors, possessing 5 colors: pink, red, yellow, orange and banana green. The Canò Cristal River originates from the 1.7 billion-year-old peak of the Guiana Shield, one of the oldest rocky mountains on the planet. It flows to the south, winding and winding, downhill, 100km downhill. Colombia has a two-season climate, the rainy season and the dry season. During the rainy season, this South American country is soggy. Cano Cristal rolls a torrential, turbid flood, simply a violent stream. But in the dry season, the sun has just turned to make the water recede, it immediately changes its appearance, becoming the most beautiful river on the planet. The dry season in Colombia begins in June and lasts until November. The sun is so intense that the air is on fire. No more silt due to rainwater washing in, Canõ Cristal is clear to the bottom. The entire Canò Cristal riverbed is covered with ancient rocks billions of years old. They are very rich in phosphorus, iron, quartz… suitable for the growth of moss Macarenia clavigera. Macarenia clavigera is a moss endemic to the La Macarena region. It differs from normal aquatic algae in that it changes color according to the intensity of sunlight. When the sun in the dry season is more intense and the water level of Cano Cristal is shallower, they race to change color. Although the same type of moss, each cluster “blooms” a different color. And yet, Macarenia clavigera also changes color randomly. Cano Cristal is always changing its appearance. It is so beautiful that Colombians have to call it “the river that escaped from heaven”. Lac Rose (Senegal) Lac Rose is most gorgeous when it’s sunny. There is no place in the world that is more “fairytale” than Hong Lake – Lac Rose in Cap Vert Peninsula, Senegal. It lies close to the Atlantic Ocean, just a narrow strip of land apart, so close that the waves hit the ocean, salt water has flooded into the lake. True to the name Hong Lake, Lac Rose is bright pink. It stands out in the setting between the green forest and the azure sea. The area of ​​Lac Rose is about 3 square kilometers. The closer to noon, when the temperature reaches 37oC, the sun is fierce and the dry wind is hottest, the more brilliant it is. As in Canò Cristal, the agents responsible for this color are plants. It is the red microalgae Dunaliella salina. Dunaliella salina is one of the common salt-loving microalgae, found all over the world. They possess the ability to synthesize Beta-Carotene, a superior protective organic substance. This substance has the effect of preventing sunburn, increasing the rate of photosynthesis and bringing warm colors. The more sunny it is, the more actively Dunaliella salina produces Beta-Carotene, turning the whole body into a bright pink color like strawberry milk. The water in Lac Rose is 10 times saltier than the Atlantic Ocean. It is the result of receiving water, evaporating, and settling salt year after year. Yuncheng (China) Yuncheng is like a giant paint palette. Similar to Lac Rose, Yuncheng (Shanxi, China) is a salt lake. Different in that, it is divided into compartments, each compartment has a color. Summer has just arrived, the layer of salt-loving microalgae races to produce Beta-Carotene sunscreen. They form a multicolored Yuncheng that looks like a giant paint palette. Of course, Yuncheng did not divide the compartment by himself, but by human intervention. With an area of ​​up to 132 km2, it was soon divided into different large and small fields, convenient for salt harvesting. From about 6,000 years ago, the Han people knew how to take advantage of the salt in the lake bed. In the 6th Century, Yuncheng also acted as a major salt supplier, responsible for a quarter of China’s total salt production. Today, Yuncheng is still one of the important salt producing regions. Since 1980, Yuncheng has turned to salt production according to modern technological lines. Dallol (Ethiopia) Dallol is beautiful but extremely poisonous, lifeless. Dallol is an area of ​​poor water in the Afar Region of Ethiopia. It consists only of small puddles of water, exposed to magical shimmering colors. However, the water here is not really water. If Canõ Cristal, Lac Rose, Yuncheng are living heavens, Dallol is truly hell. All its puddles are concentrated acid, not even bacteria can survive. The temperature in Dallol is extremely hot, always at 40oC, sometimes soaring to 73oC. Beneath these lifeless puddles lies a boiling volcano. Just standing on the ground here for a moment, the soles of the shoes melted. The miracle is that it is in this “gate to hell” that the Afar people find a rich source of life: salt. For thousands of years, Dallol salt has played a role in the livelihood of the Afar people. Every night, when the temperature in “hell’s gate” drops to the lowest, the Afar people light torches to light the way in to get salt. They sell to merchants, earn extra income, improve their dependents on livestock. Grand Prismatic (USA) Grand Prismatic burns the fields, but is still densely populated with microalgae. Grand Prismatic is a hot spring located in Yellowstone National Park, USA. It boils at 70oC, evaporating 2,100 liters of water/min. Although boiling, Grand Prismatic water is full of minerals. It is favorable for many heat-tolerant microalgae to grow. The diameter of the Grand Prismatic is about 110m, with a depth of 50m. Except the center of the lake is too hot, no microalgae can grow, it is dense with micro-organisms. They come in all sorts of hot colors, the most popular being orange and yellow. Like most waters that glow with moss and algae, the Grand Prismatic is just as gorgeous in the summer. The heat of the sun and the boiling of the microbial plant juices produce natural protectors at full capacity. The color of chlorophyll disappears, replaced by bright colors, challenging the burning sun.

Scientists’ discoveries at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) and University of Florida (UF) have shown that marine biodiversity studies can enhance biomedical research. The naming of the compound Gatorbulin-1 (GB1) found in blue algae is a tribute to UF researchers and global partners who lit the torch for the discovery and traits of algae. lam. From self-defense to drugs Cyanobacteria are single-celled terrestrial and aquatic organisms around the world. They can use chemicals to defend themselves against predators. These chemicals also play a role in helping the cyanobacteria communicate. “ We studied a series of compounds called Quorum’s emotional inhibitors that affect the chemical signals that cyanobacteria have, ” said Dr. Valerie Paul, a chemical ecologist at Smithsonian Marine Station. used to communicate. The Quorum emotion is a name for the way bacteria communicate using chemical signals. The scientists examined the cyanobacteria’s communication and defense compounds to test for biomedical properties. Often they realize the compound’s medical potential before understanding why cyanobacteria take it. In a new study, GB1 was shown to have significant anticancer activity with the potential for a new drug formulation. But scientists are not quite sure how cyanobacteria use it. TS. Nature has optimized these compounds, which are created for a certain purpose, in the case of blue-green algae, said Paul, as self-defense. Chemical structure of Gatorbulin-1 (GB1) molecule. From the sea to the lab The blue-green algae targeted, Lyngbya confervoides, was discovered more than a decade before Dr. Paul started collecting this species. She quickly realized that the algae produced many different compounds, so she sent the samples to her collaborator Professor Hendrik Luesch for further study. But finding a new compound like GB1 that has the potential to make a new drug is a long process (not including the time it takes to add and test it to convert the compound into a safe, functional drug). The first stage of the procedure is to isolate and demonstrate that the purified compound can selectively kill cancer cells. Spurred by this discovery, Prof. Hendrik’s team was trying to find a way to synthesize the substance in the laboratory. A reliable way to produce GB1 is the first important thing to do in-depth research. “We like to stay in place to collect more cyanobacteria to isolate enough materials for advanced research,” Dr. Hendrik said. As organic chemists, we are able to replicate these natural molecules in larger quantities in the laboratory without having to depend on cyanobacteria. GB1 has been added to additional stages for the synthesis process. Scientists have discovered that GB1 targets a protein in cells called Tubulin – the same protein cells require during cell division and uses it to build ” internal scaffolding ”. While there are many chemotherapy drugs that target Tubulin, Prof. Hendrik and colleagues assert that GB1 is more special because it interacts with Tubulin in new ways. Now researchers are eager to see GB1 as effective in the real world as well as its potential to make anti-cancer drugs. The cyanobacteria that produced Gatorbulin-1 (GBI) was recognized as the algae Lyngbya confervoides. Healing ability of biochemistry Organic chemists often turn to nature to study drug formulation. For example, compounds in terrestrial life mechanisms such as plants and fungi led to the creation of important drugs such as penicillin that is now a staple of modern medicine. In the ocean, about three-quarters of the earth’s surface has yet to be touched by humans. “It’s really a chemical war in the ocean,” said Professor Hendrik. The more battles and communications like that will help us humans understand more about the active compounds that can apply to mankind. ” And Dr. Paul said: “From a chemical ecologist’s point of view, this biodiversity is equivalent to chemical diversity. We can find everything in the ocean we never dreamed of. ” Nguyen Thanh Hai ( (According to smithsonianmag) )

Early autumn. There the fog became clear in the hills. Forty years then the dew goes on falling and remains transparent. Mist was light in her hair, her slightly curly, cloudy hair is now close to the color of the mist. Mist blended in a magical, pure white smoke soared up. Shakily, she lifted her thick, neatly tied booklet, which had been stained with gold in the past. She has carefully kept them and the letters he has written to her for forty years! The soft, italic letters she had written to him with the ink colors of that day far away. They were shivering and beautiful like a woman far away from her husband in passionate love. She has kept them as her treasures since his death. The letters with her have seen so many autumn seasons pass even without him – a talented and destined husband soon passed away at the age of four-five. The fall is special with blue hair. The fall is special with white hair. The autumn leaves yellow leaves … Forty autumn had passed, etched on her face many traces of ups and downs, suffering, loneliness, and fear. That vitality, that soul, and that happiness still shone in her eyes. Countless tears of happiness and bitterness each earned. Forty seasons passed, she never forgot the man of her life. No one can replace him. Even now, his face, his voice, his smile, his figure and his soul filled her mind. Yes, in that place the mist had become transparent. She saw the white mist drifting softly, a fantastical, far away color. The remote mountainous area is covered with mountains and hills and thousands of white clouds gradually appear in the sacred smoke … There he and she met in the days of resistance and hardship. A simple and crowded wedding of a nurse in her hometown ripe red during the famous lychee seasons with a young teacher from Nam Dinh study land volunteered to start a career in the highlands. They – a pair of talented boys and girls. There she had four gentle, fragile daughters like four angels. There, she became a doctor in the highlands with a lot of work and dreams of saving people far away from the border! That place is high mountain. Mountainous region with simple people like mountains, sincere like hills and free soul like cool streams flowing, flowing forever … Flowing away. Flowing away. The Red River is rolling dark red alluvium that has dared sweat, tears and blood for generations. She thought dreamily about that beautiful and poor country, where people are always open, honest and open, they are so romantic like clouds, their souls are as green as a mountain, clear like a spring … The letters are being transformed into flames. The flames are doing their part. Fire broke out and the spirit rang with the sound of leaves. Strong aroma of smoke and alcohol. (Before burning the letters, she splashed on them a few drops of fragrant wine, the famous mountain corn wine he liked in the past …) She sent him the whole autumn through each green leaf dome and the whispering song of the wind. She sent him the blue sky and the richness of the trees floating with white clouds. Yes, only you know, you only understand. Only he felt deeply and saw through her sadness as clear as the dewdrops of her morning dew. Only he knows how beautiful she is. How charming and lonely, how small? Because of that, she understood very well why she became stronger, stronger, weaker and more lonely than many other women. Wherever she went, she could see his footprints with him. In whatever joy with her children and grandchildren, she realized that his smile sparkled, They were imprinted on the autumn paths of her life. The letters have flown to the sky and you will get it all. She smiled contentedly and found herself no longer alone. I feel more beautiful, gentler, and softer as many women in this world. Standing still in front of his grave, gazing at the silent motion picture on the tombstone, she gazed up at the windy sky overflowing white clouds. In the widow’s heart, there was a whisper: “Please send back love in the golden autumn seasons” … And here, right now the transparent autumn droplets are falling sparklingly! PTPT (Celebrating the seasons of my family’s hometown – Tiet Thanh Minh is always pure)

What is octopus?

To answer this question, perhaps most of the public will think of a delicious, popular seafood, or at most remember the octopus Paul, who once attracted the world’s attention thanks to his “predictions. “Exactly about the 2010 World Cup matches.

For those reading Wikipedia “addicted” or good students in Biology, maybe the answer will have more about the superior intelligence of molluscs if compared with other inhabitants of the ocean kingdom. . These are the easy answers, for we naturally consider only the “common” octopus (common octopus or octopus vulgaris) to be an animal, nothing more, no less.

But for South African filmmaker Craig Foster, such a “common” octopus is not an animal, much less delicious food. That creature is the middle-aged man’s “teacher” about nature, life, and is also the main character of the excellent documentary. My Octopus Teacher (My octopus teacher).

Friendship between humans and octopus

Crafted by directors Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed for Netflix based on documentary footage of Craig Foster’s strange and amusing meeting with the octopus at the end of the black continent bordering the Atlantic. Cape of Storms, My Octopus Teacher recounts the seemingly impossible friendship between a man who has gone through all stages of his life with a seemingly inanimate octopus.

Craig Foster is not a dreamer with the ability to find soul in every creature in the world. On the contrary, he is a filmmaker tired of the events of his life, feeling helpless in communicating with even those he loves most, like his son Tom.

Filmmaker Craig Foster.

Therefore, Foster decided to give up the camera to go back to his homeland at Storm Cape alone, where he could enjoy himself in solitude amid the beautiful and mysterious kelp forest. contact people, not think about life.

It was in the underwater forest that he met an octopus, who had no name, no voice, but showed incredible intelligence in hunting or camouflage to avoid the pijama sharks who were always prowling in the darkness of the ocean. . Out of curiosity, Foster began to really pay attention to learn, only to realize that the “animal” has much closer to the lonely man in the cold southern water.

From here, Craig Foster tried to build a “friendship”, a seemingly impossible emotional chain with that unnamed and voiceless octopus. Throughout My Octopus Teacher, viewers can see many different moments of that friendship, from nervousness, sadness, to happiness, anxiety, and at the same time feel the maturity, toughness of the emotional rope between the two sides. .

In the end, all will have to admit that the friendship between man and the seemingly small, dark octopus is not impossible.

The film’s sincerity

If you have to pack it up My Octopus Teacher In a word, perhaps it is sincerity. In each movie describing the wonderful nature of South Africa in general and kelp forest in particular, or in Craig Foster’s words for her octopus or for the vast ocean world, viewers can feel sincere feelings.

It is the feeling that filmmakers and movie characters like Foster, like his son Tom, for her octopus and the natural world. Honesty and sincerity are of course the required qualities of a good documentary film.

The film is about the heartfelt friendship between Craig Foster and an unnamed octopus.

But the careful, meticulousness of Craig Foster and his colleagues to describe the most accurate, clearest, easiest to grasp the diversity and depth of life in the ocean has helped the audience understand. out a truth. That man is just a part of the big world with a real connection that always exists and waits to be unearthed, as the way Foster realized his feelings for the “octopus teacher” .

Perhaps for many viewers, the name “My octopus teacher” will bring many doubts because of the stereotype “octopus is just an animal” due to the lack of contact with nature in a natural way. . But Craig Foster, and My Octopus Teacher, will quickly resolve that skepticism thanks to excellent footage of a strange world at the end of the world.

On the ocean floor, in the shadow of the giant kelp trees, viewers will find a feeling of sedimentation. Seeing the way the octopus took the tentacle and touched Foster’s hard but trembling hand, many fathers and mothers will surely remember the moment they saw their baby born, holding the table. the small, fragile hand of a being who still could not speak, but already had a seed of affection within him.

Foster’s troubled gaze when talking about the dangerous moments – which filled the short life of an octopus in the raging ocean – perhaps reminded many viewers of the anxiety and restlessness they had. for your loved one in the stormy turns of life.

My Octopus Teacher there are many moments like that for the audience to feel the real friendship between Foster and the octopus teacher.

Humans are only part of the Earth

In the context of modern society gradually taking over the wild, people destroy natural life at a dizzying speed and then have to face the consequences of their own cause, many filmmakers have been try to call for human conscience in preserving nature, preserving the precious remaining life resources on Earth.

Usually, directors will choose to speak face to face, outlining the dire consequences that humanity will suffer as in An Inconvenient Truth (2006) by David Guggenheim, or specifying a variety of breathtaking yet fragile beauty, in need of the protection of the Earth as in Our Planet led by legendary David Attenborough.

Humans are, after all, only part of the Earth.

Also a beautiful work of nature, but My Octopus Teacher choose another way of giving your message. Through a seemingly rare encounter between Craig Foster and his octopus teacher, the film simply tells us that we – modern humans – are just inhabitants of a vast world on Earth. . There are many other residents here, with different destinies, different ways of life, different behaviors.

Only efforts to protect the environment, with a real desire to come to nature, to return to nature, can humanity have the opportunity to truly get acquainted, experience precious emotions like Foster in almost one. His octopus teacher track year.

From a beautiful lifestyle, people can find opportunities to make their life less lonely, to see life more beautiful, worth living, like how Craig Foster nurtured feelings for his son through feelings. The inspiration was obtained from the sea, from the octopus teacher.