IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO END LIKE THIS

A dark, intimate close-up scene of an older man seated at a desk, holding a realistic face mask of a Japanese man against his chest/chin area. An iMac-style monitor sits to the right in profile view, its screen displaying a grid of colorful meme stickers and cartoon avatars. The hero lighting element is an intense red LED backlight bleeding from behind the monitor edges, casting red rim light onto the desk, keyboard, cables, and the right side of the man's face. The screen provides cool white key light on his face from the right. The room is very dark with subtle wall detail visible. Shot at 65mm, eye-level, tight bust framing in 4:5 portrait orientation. The mood is lonely, melancholic, and intimate — a late-night scene of someone confronting identity and loss.