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Comment by doopy1 | Hacker News Reader

This got a lot of on the internet, but I found it so incredibly boring.

Logically, it should be boring.

But for whatever reason it made me feel emotions about something I would have never have thought would reach me that way. I think what struck me the most personally was the relationship the maker established with his son. But plenty of others I know have reacted to it in very different (but still highly positive) ways.

Can you explain why? I found it such a deft exposition on both zoology and philosophy. So good.

I don't know, because my memory of it is vague at this point. The octopus is definitely fascinating, I love all that stuff, but the narrative didn't really grab me and I think maybe it felt long winded and all that combined with the hype left me feeling a bit high and dry.

Not GP. Instead of duplicating what I posted in another comment on the criticism of it, here’s the link to my HN comment. [1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32806378

Umm yeah, just couldn't make it past the whole "post-colonial meta-narrative [for white people]" bit. That's pretty much a good summing up of all the criticism I've read of the film: that because it was made by some relatively-well-off white dude in South Africa, that there can be nothing of value to learn from it.

I'll take the one that required dedication and hard work to obtain never-before-seen footage of animal behavior over a snarky YouTube hot-take criticism any day.

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