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Chi-Raq: Directed by Spike Lee. With Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes, Angela Bassett. A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago, Illinois.
Chi-Raq is as urgently topical and satisfyingly ambitious as it is wildly uneven -- and it contains some of Spike Lee's smartest, sharpest, and all-around entertaining late-period work.
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Chi-Raq (/ ʃ aɪ ˈ r æ k /) is a 2015 American musical crime comedy drama film, directed and produced by Spike Lee and co-written by Lee and Kevin Willmott. Set in Chicago, the film focuses on the gang violence prevalent in neighborhoods on the city's south side, particularly the Englewood neighborhood. [5]
Directed by the critically acclaimed filmmaker Spike Lee, Chi-Raq is a modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play “Lysistrata” by Aristophanes. After the murder of a child by a stray bullet, a group of women led by Lysistrata organize against the on-going violence in Chicago’s Southside creating a movement that challenges the nature ...
Dec 2, 2015 · “Chi-Raq” is a modern-day musical satire about violence and guns and men and women and sex and power. Its title is a slang term coined by residents of Chicago’s violence-plagued South side, empowered by statistics showing that more Americans have died from gunshots in the last twelve years than soldiers involved in the American occupation ...
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Nov 4, 2015 · Chi-Raq Official Trailer #1 (2015) - Wesley Snipes, Teyonah Parris Movie HD. 7.6K Likes. 1,732,255 Views. 2015 Nov 4.
Nov 4, 2015 · Chi-Raq is a modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play “Lysistrata” by Aristophanes. After the murder of a child by a stray bullet, a group of women led by Lysistrata...
Dec 4, 2015 · Based on the ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata, by Aristophanes, Chi-Raq concerns itself with the women of Chicago’s South Side enacting a sex strike until the men stop wantonly killing each other.
Dec 3, 2015 · Because “Chi-Raq” is a racial allegory in which African-American women unite across generations and rival gang affiliations to stop gun violence, the film risks erasing the specific forms of ...
