CROCODILE (1996) is Kim Ki Duk's debut feature, which is trademark Kim Ki Duk. It is bizarre but strangely compelling and original.
Violent thug Crocodile lives under a bridge by the Han River in Seoul together with a peddling boy and a homeless old man in a jury-rigged tent. Crocodile saves a beautiful young woman Hyun-Jung from suicide by drowning, but only to use her for sex. Yet, for some reason the woman, betrayed by her lover, stays with Crocodile, and a peculiar bond establishes.
‘I’m only a refusal of the society,’ Ag-o (Crocodile) tells the young woman who tries to care his fresh injuries. ‘Whore, looking for (a way) to reach my heart?’ She isn’t, instead the deadly brooding monster is slowly losing his own battle — the goodness of this woman, whom he had saved from the deadly depths of Han River, is overpowering him.
In Ag-o, Kim Ki- duk puts all his rage & his frustration. Kim Ki-duk's characters don’t ask a man to seek refuge in love for a woman. Kim doesn’t glorify love or suggest it could be an answer for human suffering. Ag-o’s love for the woman ultimately proves fatal.
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