Two from the same episode this time around, tried to cut it down to one but the quote from the wagon one was too cool to pass up. And I already had a fun visual idea for 'eat me' in my head so just ended up doing them both.

It's the first with doubles but not the last, a few of Micheals episodes have lots of good lines I want to do.

My Octopus Teacher (2020)

Rewatched this film for the 2nd time the other day while slightly stoned and was having some very existential thoughts. My first reaction was wow, this is amazing. So inspired! This octopus is so cool, intelligent, beautiful, weird and alien-like. We really need movies and educational documentaries like this to expose living creatures and species we may never know about otherwise. 

But then of course I went down the path of “why can’t humans be this cool? we suck” mentality lol. Maybe if someone captured all of our abilities and intelligence that makes us sophisticated and unique on film, that would make us seem as cool as the octopus. But isn’t that what movies and TV shows or I guess documentaries aim to do? Are we making them for ourselves, or for others/outsiders, potentially? Who looks at humans and thinks “wow, beautiful aliens!”?? 

The thing about movies whether it’s documentary or an actual production with actors and stuff is that either way, it’s so performative so it’s not really capturing and telling the whole story when it comes to the human experience. Humans and all living things are different when observed (when they know they’re being watched or filmed). How do animals, such as the octopus behave when they don’t know they’re being filmed? Surely they can feel the presence of camera equipment invading their natural environment, even if the person behind the camera steps away for hours or days or weeks. Is it cynical to think that way? To believe that nothing can be truly authentic under the gaze of the observer?