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bfuller
This was one of the saddest movies I've ever seen.
lisper
Why sad? I thought it was rather inspiring.
ggm
They have increadibly short lives for such intelligent creatures.

We eat them and in many cultures the death is horrific by any standard: eviscerated, and beaten to soften the flesh in an organism with a widely distributed brain.

The environment they live in is fragile, damaged and shrinking but is beautiful.

lisper
OK, fair enough, but that's not really the movie per se. That's just the life of octopi in general, which I grant you is very sad.
geocrasher
Adam Savage just posted a video the other day about his favorite life experience that he didn't think he'd done if not for MythBusters. And it was? Getting to know an octopus! It's a great video, but I also learned something: It's "octopusses" not "octopi". But after watching this, I want to meet an octopus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-0bBTuLAR8