Spike Lee’s Necessary, Overwhelming “Chi-Raq”
The movie isn’t about guns; it’s about masculinity and manhood, and the need to break the pathological cycle of self-identifying virility and violence.
.. The control that Lee imagines isn’t so much gun control as it is self-control. “Chi-Raq” is a vision of political change (about which the movie is amazingly specific) but, first, foremost, and from beginning to end, it’s about personal change—about giving up guns, and, for that matter, giving up much more.