Diana Deleon Chi-Raq

Chi-Raq

Chi-Raq is a 2015 musical drama film directed and produced by Spike Lee. The story is based off a Classical Greek comedy play where woman withheld sex to punish the men for fighting in the Peloponnesian War. 

Although based on the Greek war, Chi-Raq focused on a more Modern issue. Gangs, which I'm guessing were the Bloods and Crips but for this movie they were " Trojans " and " Cyclopes ". Set in a town " Inglewood " which again, I assume is Chicago, they focus on the violence that these gangs proposed on the community. 

Demetrius,The leader of the Trojans, is played by Nick Cannon but although he is one of the most known actors in the movie, the lead role is played by Teyonah Parris, Lysistrata. (Lysistrata is the girlfriend of Demetrius)  

After the recent event of a young girl getting shot and left for dead by a gang drive by, Lysistrata had an idea to propose to  the women of these gang members to try and stop the violence. What is the one thing that men cant live without?

Sex.

Lysistrata reached out to the women of the Cyclopes gang and together they formed a movement.

Although it started only with the gang member's woman it soon spread out to all woman. These woman took over the military base and soon had all control of the men, cause you know, men start to die inside when they dont get the poom poom.

After three months of no sex, both the Cyclopes and the Trojans came to a conclusion that they would stop the violence because they were tired of being horny and lonely. 

And finally, Demetrius admitted to killing the young girl in the drive by.

My thoughts

This movie was very very well thought out. The dialogue between the characters was legit music. It was like they were rapping to one another which I found incredibly cool. They put out their purpose but also made it into a sort of comedy with songs and dances between the sexes. This movie was very explicit so maybe it was best that I watched this alone. Explicit dialogue and scenery. It makes me wonder if woman really have that much control over just withholding sex, Hmmm. The lead role, Lysistrata, did an AMAZING job with really getting into her character, on the other hand, Nick Cannon wasn't the best pick. All in all, everyone should watch this ( on their own time )