close-up portrait composition — Slashed close-up with spaced corner title

A dark thriller movie poster fills the frame with a tight, brooding close-up of a middle-aged man's face, drenched in cold teal and near-black shadow. Behind him, the background dissolves into pitch-black darkness with no discernible detail. At the center of the composition, his weathered face turns slightly toward the viewer, his brow furrowed and his dark eyes fixed with a grim, haunted stare. His short dark hair is cropped close, flecked with gray at the temples. A coarse gray-streaked beard covers his jaw and cheeks, its individual hairs catching faint cold highlights. Deep lines cross his forehead and bracket his mouth, and his skin shows the texture of age and fatigue. In the upper-right corner, his ear catches a faint edge of light against the black void. On the left side of the frame, the bridge of his nose and the ridge of his cheekbone emerge from shadow in sickly green-gray tones. In the lower-right area, he wears a dark ribbed knit collar, barely distinguishable from the surrounding darkness. Across the frame from the upper-center to the lower-right corner runs a thin, sharp white diagonal line, like a slash cutting the image in two. The line passes over his beard and shoulder, ending near the bottom-right corner where it frays into a rough, scratched texture. In the lower-left corner, a two-line title in wide-spaced white uppercase sans-serif reads "TITLE", the first line's third letter reversed like a mirrored R. The letters have a slightly eroded, gritty surface. Across the bottom edge, the black background swallows all detail, leaving the white title floating in darkness. The lighting is cold and forensic, raking in from the front-left with a greenish cast that hollows his eye sockets and sharpens the stubble, while the rest of the frame sinks into inky blackness with only the thin white slash breaking the dark. The claustrophobic composition traps the haunted face between the slicing diagonal and the stark title, confined to a palette of cold teal, ash gray, and absolute black, rendered in a stark photographic noir style that exudes bleak, oppressive dread.