The perverse jealousy of Serge Gainsbourg, who created “Je t'aime moi non plus”

Gender invalidation

The heroine played by Jane Birkin is named Johnny. With her short hair and boyish physique, her name already negates her gender. "Je t'aime moi non plus" can be said to be a love story that aims for androgyny. Here we can see Serge Gainsbourg's desire for physical perversion. However, if we reinterpret it from a modern perspective, it would be more intimate for us Dead Poets Society to see this film as a "story of liberation from gender."

The movement of the muscles of a well-trained body in the sensual film " Equator " (1983), in which he once again teamed up with Willy Krant and is beautifully shot. Similarly, in " Charlotte for Ever " (1986), the young body of the daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg, whose gender has not yet differentiated. Looking at these works, it is clear that filmmaker Serge Gainsbourg has a great interest in photographing the body.

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There is a scene in which the lovers float on a lake, clinging to a truck tire. Serge Gainsbourg and Willy Krant's obsession with the body explodes as the camera circles the naked lovers. This shot makes the audience conscious of the muscular and skeletal shapes of the two young men illuminated by the bright sunlight, while at the same time nullifying the gender attributes of the lovers. Coupled with Jane Birkin's boyish body, the bodies of the lovers floating in the lake here are two bodies liberated from gender.

In the next scene, Klasky (Joe D'Alessandro) shows a disapproving reaction to Johnny, who is all dressed up and running with a big smile on his face. Klasky isn't looking for a "woman." However, what is particularly beautiful about this sprinting scene is that the scene in which Johnny displays his ``feminine'' appearance is the very next scene after he achieves the aforementioned liberation from gender. Further nullification of gender by reversing gender over and over again. It can be read as gender confusion. Serge Gainsbourg projects Jane Birkin on screen as an androgynous messenger.

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