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Discreet (LGBTQ) | Becoming someone else

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

could be borderline disorder

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Wesley clearly has some sort of personality disorder.
Its obvious he has low self-esteem and is insecure and lacks self-identity and social skills. He also lacks the ability to respect boundaries; and he is impulsive and immature and inexperienced (probably his only exposure to gay world was through the pages of Tom of Finland book [hence his ToF look i.e. mustache, hairy chest. That 'geographic map outline' tattoo tells me he has come from a rural region (where being gay was hard) but that place is still close to his heart.

Wesley doesn't know what he wants or who he is (common dilemma for people with personality disorder/ closeted gay men). He is definitely attracted to Matt's personality and wants to be confident and openly gay like Matt.

Is Matt dead?
I suspect he is.
When things go odd between them and Matt asks him to leave. Wesley's face changes (angry/rage?). Perhaps because Wesley feels rejected. Then there is Matt's whimpering sound (around 10:24) followed by they both lying in bed. You look closely and compare their chests...Wesley is breathing while Matt's not.
Wesley shaving his chest hair aggressively is him self harming for what he has done to Matt.
Then of course Wesley walks out alone wearing Matt's red hoodie, headphones (that Matt wore in the gym earlier).

Wesley is a psychopath.

— @acubenschild

A FILM SHORTAGE SELECTION

"Discreet" is a short LGBTQ short by Kevin Lewis

Intéressant et gorgeous ❤❤❤❤❤❤

— @BERTONI704

More from the director:

"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.

he’s mental😂

— @saint_benedetto

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."

There are a lot of weird people out there u will never know who is dangerous, stat safe yall, he literally wore his skin.

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Finally, I found my way to your channel and I'm glad I did.

Wesley was jealous of Matt from the beginning, considered him more handsome than him and had fallen madly in love with his hairless face and chest.

I think he had a schizophrenic temperament and even killed him in the end.
But that wasn't enough for him, he suffered from his loss and tried to take his place and resemble him, furiously shaving his chest.

Matt didn't react, neither when he touched him on the bed, nor to the sound of the water running from the faucet, that's why I think he was already dead...at least this is my interpretation.

This short is a masterpiece, and a real study into the hidden, psychological horror.
Have to say, your direction is really professional and all your films; I find great tension which is escalating and building.

You are on the way for something big, so keep the good work going 👍

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i feel like people are totally missing how much the movie signals the ending way before it happens because the whole time wesley is obsessed with matt's chest. at the beginning, he is literally doing chest presses and later when the wesley is alone in the locker room he's checking his own chest in the mirror. even after the couch scene he literally falls into matt's chest and in the bedroom thats the specific body part he fixates on touching. thats why the bathroom scene is so brutal its not just random self harm he's trying to carve himself into the image of matt that hes been staring at the whole time. he sees the smooth shaved chest in bed and immediately tries to replicate it with a razor even if it means bleeding out.

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Truly the most monstrous act in this film was him shaving his chest hair.

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More User Perspectives

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Awful.

@rafaelmoreno9597
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Extremely odd

@gordonadams4793
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Gay men have become so pedestrian. Empty and shallow. Scroll repeat

@gordonadams4793
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This is confusing bs!

@richardhadley4549
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did he kill him?? i am lost

@markburguron3035
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I met many guys just like him and worse. One guy I dated had an obsession for guinea pig. We adopted 34. Things got really weird. Long story. But I was lucky to get out alive.

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couldnt understand, can someone detail plz

@Aryans-s9q
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@XmxxMaxx
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Just,,,,,weird !!!!!!

@Alain245-b3n
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Creepy!!

@chekng1859
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I'm into it. Let's gooooo!

@Matkai
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❤😢

@fosterjacobs6117
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CRAP!!!

@jpm5798
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Why are movies with gays are mostly so sad, bad..with no happy end? Its really time to change it! Please!

@p.s.5
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Why are the actors in Gay movies all thin, handsome and in their 20s?

@kellybrown8638
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SICK

@NeilGoff-kj7cx
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I fucking loathe that he doesn't turn off the water when he's not using it

@Rei-Ire
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Does anyone date any more?

@Raastee
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Atmosphère inquiétante, mise en scène subtile, interprétation parfaite avec un héros peut-être schizophrène . Bravo pour votre talent .

@jeannot2756
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❤❤😊❤❤

@a1q369
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Gindr can give us a lot of thinking of creatures.
Really creepy.👍

@juliogonzalez6811
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Why are male gay flicks never as classy as female gay flics?

@RickeyMontey
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All I gotta say is, "No thanks...!"

@RT3319
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This is why I don’t use grinder. Sketchy dudes out there 😂

@BSULLY2024
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I hate to be the one to say it but the mustachioed boy is...very handsome

@whatafreakinusername
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🤣😴

@jaxmanx
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Loved it! Gave me a "Substance" vibe... 👏🏻

@JepMxDesign
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This was so sinister! I love it! I’d watch a full feature of this!

@JBaby_9783
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I’m so confused!

@Travelingman724
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Should have been titled “disturbing: becoming someone else“ 😬

@dr9209
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Psycho

@PrinceUzumaki-ho3us
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This was genuinely creepy and unnerving. Interesting connection between the film situation and the movie playing on the television. Well done! Thanks!

@resistdisinformation9931
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Not sure what I just looked at... what happened to the other guy? First I thought he got killed. But he was still breathing in the bed 🤔

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