A young man’s desire spirals into obsession as he tries to reshape himself in the image of someone else.

Director’s Vision for ‘Discreet’

Be with him or become him. That tension drives Discreet. Wesley’s attraction to Matt moves beyond desire and into imitation. He treats another man’s body like instructions, testing how intimacy dissolves identity and how longing hollows him out.

The internet sharpens that pull. Grindr and Instagram present Matt as curated fragments, always available and always repeatable. Wesley consumes those images and folds them into his private rituals, practicing how to stand, how to look, how to carry himself. Each rehearsal leaves him less certain of what is his and what has been borrowed.

The film carries this collapse through gesture more than dialogue. Silence and posture replace conversation. A red sweatshirt slipped on, hair styled to match, a razor taken to the chest: these become the language of Wesley’s fixation. He is not chasing Matt’s emotional interior but the shape of his body and the surface of his life. Discreet lingers in the danger of desire, showing how the chase for closeness can collapse into a project of self erasure, and asking what it costs to sculpt yourself into the shape of someone you long for.