here's what i wrote so far heh...

Devastating and heartbreaking and life-changing, but prepare yourself for an absolute essay on one of many particular focal points I've been obsessing over. When I first watched ALNST (I've watched it three times today back to back), the scene of Ivan singing and reaching out his hand struck me as odd, especially since ALNST takes every single frame extremely seriously to an insane degree (i.e. Luka circling Mizi like a snake would do to its prey, Sua visibly sweating and being more tired than Mizi when they tried to reach a tie in the first round, Till's wires and restraints being removed after round five because he was too emotionally destroyed to rebel and be "disobedient," etc.) So, the hand movements. Why? They could have just been him pointing to Till, his "black sorrow." But no, it's deeper than that. He isn't even pointing at Till with that move. There are three hand gestures made that piqued my interest the most. 1, a strange side angle move. This one was meant for Till. It's a weird stroking movement done to the air in front of him, the same way he'd grabbed Till's neck so many times before.. and after. 2, the second gesture where his palm was out. It's similar to the flashback in round six, the moment Till had let go of his hand when they were running away. The flashback of this scene in round three showed it from a side angle, but in round six the moment Till let go was shown from Ivan's perspective.