Date 04/12/2015 - News People
Chi-Raq is director Spike Lee?s best-reviewed feature film since 2006?s Inside Man. But the movie, a modern-day adaptation of Aristophanes? play Lysistrata that tells the story of Chicago women organizing a sex strike to stop gang violence in their neighborhoods, hasn?t been as well-received within the community it claims to represent. The name already stirred up controversy in Chicago while the film was in production, and now the city?s own Chance the Rapper has taken to Twitter to lambaste the movie?and Spike Lee?s decision to engage the city?s trouble as an interloper.
