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Chi-Raq ( / ʃaɪˈræk /) 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]
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 of Iraq.
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.
Dec 9, 2015 · “Chi-Raq” is a loose adaptation of Aristophanes’ comedy “Lysistrata,” from 411 B.C., about a group of women who withhold sex from men in order to get them to end the ruinous Peloponnesian War.
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...
Nov 23, 2015 · Introduced with the flashing on-screen words “THIS IS AN EMERGENCY,” the song is a grim ode to a major metropolis that has seen more Americans killed in the past 15 years than the Iraq and...
Dec 7, 2015 · In “Chi-Raq,” the leader of the Trojans is a cackling, piratical figure named Cyclops, bejeweled eye patch and all. Pitted against him is the rapper known as Chi-Raq, the boss of the Spartans.
