Acclaimed music video director Grant Singer has just released his debut feature film on Netflix<\/a>: a neo-noir flick titled Reptile that he co-wrote with Benjamin Brewer and Benicio del Toro.<\/p>\n Oscar-winning actor Del Toro also takes on the lead role in the film, starring as hardened detective Tom Nichols as he investigates the murder of a young real estate agent and eventually uncovers a major conspiracy that leads him to question everything he thought he knew about his colleagues<\/p>\n Although we eventually find out the culprits behind the murder, Singer explained during an exclusive interview with RadioTimes.com<\/a> that he wanted to keep some details about the film deliberately opaque.<\/p>\n \u201cThe movie very much evokes this feeling of not knowing,\u201d he explained. \u201cAnd it\u2019s this fine, delicate balance between making something satisfying for the viewer, but also not showing them something. So that they can lean in and question what is it they\u2019re seeing, what are the motivations, is this person hiding something, what does that mean?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLike the absence of information or the absence of a clue can sometimes be more rewarding for a viewer than actually showing,\u201d he added. \u201cI think in terms of mysteries, sometimes the things that are most hidden tend to be the things that are most lasting. So, it\u2019s really just finding that balance.\u201d<\/p>\n If you\u2019ve watched the film and are in need of a recap regarding exactly who was the killer, read on to have the Reptile ending explained \u2013 including exclusive insights frm Singer about that <\/em>frisbee moment.<\/p> During the investigation into Summer\u2019s murder, a number of people fall under Tom\u2019s suspicions \u2013 including her boyfriend Will Grady (Justin Timberlake), their stalker Eli (Michael Carmen Pitt), and Sam (Karl Glusman) the husband from whom she has recently separated.<\/p>\n As Tom digs deeper into the case, however, he finds that there is a whole conspiracy behind the killing: Summer had been threatening to inform the FBI about a scam that Will and his mother were running that saw them planting drugs in houses so they could seize them and sell them on.<\/p>\n As this would have implicated a number of Tom\u2019s own police colleagues in a corruption scandal, she had been murdered to prevent her from spilling the information.<\/p>\n When Tom approaches senior colleagues including his friend Captain Robert Allen (Eric Bogosian)\u00a0and chief Marty Graeber (Mike Pniewski) about this he discovers that they were in on the scam and their subsequent confrontation eventually ends in a massive shootout that sees several of the conspirators shot by Tom.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, it emerges that Will \u2013 who had initially reported Summer\u2019s murder \u2013 had collaborated with the cops and was therefore also partly responsible for her death. Although his precise role is not disclosed, the film ends with him being arrested by the FBI in the middle of a golfing session.<\/p>\n One of the stranger details about the film\u2019s ending is that the shootout begins just after a frisbee hits the window of the house in which the confrontation is unfolding \u2013 which leads to a sudden shot that mortally wounds a detective called Wally and prompts Tom to shoot when he had previously been reluctant.<\/p>\n Speaking exclusively to RadioTimes.com<\/strong>, Singer explained why he decided to include this moment in the film.<\/p>\n \u201cSo there are these like, acts of God in the movie,\u201d he said. \u201cThese serendipitous moments \u2013 like Benicio at the end of the second act, where he\u2019s putting away the case binder of the murder book and these two photos just accidentally fall out.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd they end up being the photos that show the bite, which compels him to sort of revisit the case and look at the bite, which essentially creates the entire third act of the movie.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n He added: \u201cWe really like this idea of this act of God occurring in the standoff between these two characters. And the frisbee\u2026 well, first of all, the frisbee is motivated by just these kids playing right outside the house. And this idea that kids playing was like a really\u2026 I think a nice metaphor, a nice counterpoint to what is going to occur inside the house.<\/p>\n \u201cYou have this really tense, devastating conversation, moment, experience, convergence that\u2019s going to occur, and then outside you have this playfulness of just young people, young kids just having a good time.\u201d<\/p>\n And he said that the frisbee also had a secondary meaning \u2013 as a metaphor for his own experience making his first feature film.<\/p>\n \u201cThe idea is that I\u2019m the kids playing,\u201d he revealed. \u201cThis is my first movie, I\u2019m just enjoying myself, I\u2019m just playing and this is my thing. And then the moment when the kids look and make eye contact with Benicio in the window, that\u2019s me making eye contact with my lead actor, that\u2019s a moment where like the filmmaker and the actor have this moment of connection.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd it was a way to kind of create this sort of\u2026 to impart my own perspective and my own experience of making this movie into the experience of the story.\u201d<\/p> Reptile ending explained: who killed Summer?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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