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- "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 of Iraq.
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Nov 23, 2015 · Uneven as storytelling, scattershot as satire, and capped by an emotional climax that feels too rigged to resonate, Lee’s latest joint is best appreciated as a vigorous and uninhibited work of ...
Dec 4, 2015 · Chi-Raq, Spike Lee’s searing satire, is the director's best film since 2002. It's deeply funny — and very, very angry. By Emily St. James @emilyvdw Dec 4, 2015, 12:50pm EST. Teyonah Parris...
Dec 9, 2015 · Spike Lee's latest, Chi-Raq, is designed to provoke: women in Chicago's south side go on a "sex strike" to curb gang violence, cribbing from Lysistrata, Aristophanes' comic account of the...
Dec 2, 2015 · Powered by JustWatch. "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 ...
Dec 3, 2015 · It also faced accusations that its use of satire and Aristophanes’ plot of a sex strike makes light of the gang violence plaguing Chicago’s African-American neighborhoods. “It is not comedy ...
Nov 30, 2015 · With “Chi-Raq,” Spike Lee has made his most essential film in years, channeling issues as old as Aristophanes’ “Lysistrata,” on which the film is loosely based, through the voices of the young men and women in the murder capital of the United States.
Nov 23, 2015 · ‘Chi-Raq’ Review: Spike Lee Spins Sexual Satire Into Searing Commentary. The 2,400-year-old comedy “Lysistrata” feels as relevant as ever, as Teyonah Parris (“Mad Men”) leads Chicago’s women...
