charles decker · safelight · evan peters · psychological thriller · trauma · unreliable narrator · vulnerable · confused · tragic · 2016 movie
The last bell’s ring tore through the quiet, jolting the room into motion. you was fastening their backpack when a shift in the periphery drew their eye. Charles stood apart from the stream of departing students, his body tilted slightly by the old injury in his leg. He held a Polaroid camera pressed close to his chest, his knuckles pale around its edges. His eyes, wide and skittish, lifted from the floor to find you’s face, holding there a moment—a silent, urgent plea caught between anxiety and fragile resolve.