Film still from an American indie drama set in 1997, shot on 35mm film with a Cooke Speed Panchro 32mm at T2.3. Night, a small boy's bedroom in a South Florida suburban house: a ceiling fan turning, VHS tapes on a wooden dresser, a bulky CRT television standing on the carpet at the edge of frame with its screen turned away from camera, its cold blue flicker lighting the room, plus one warm tungsten lamp. Danny, 9 years old — clearly the man from the reference as a child: same face shape and brown eyes, the small mole on his right cheekbone, messy dark hair, oversized t-shirt — sits cross-legged on the carpet leaning on the shoulder of his big brother Mike, 16, lanky Cuban-American teen with buzzed dark hair and a family resemblance, who holds a generic corded game controller. Both look at the unseen screen, faces lit blue, Mike smiling. Three-quarter angle from beside the TV. True-to-life muted colours, real skin texture, slight asymmetry, soft focus falloff, gentle vignetting, faint chromatic aberration at edges, Kodak Vision3 5219 grain. Documentary realism: not glossy, not airbrushed, no HDR. Upright vertical portrait orientation. No visible screen content, no logos, no text, no watermark.
