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21 - Mourning and Loss in Chi-Raq
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An examination of two critical scenes in Chi-Raq that, for me, tell us what the film is about and what is for Spike Lee the endgame of making cinema about gun violence. The first scene is around the 25:00 mark, where Irene, played by Jennifer Hudson, cleans the blood of her murdered daughter off the sidewalk as Hudson sings "I Run" in the background. This is Lee's iteration of the theme "women's work," here as the work of mourning and literally and figuratively cleaning up the mess of men's gun violence. The second scene is around the 50:00 marks scene in which a non-professional actor and former gang member in a wheelchair describes his regret and mourning of a life enmeshed in gun violence. Both scenes bridge the fictional and farcical elements of the film to the social reality of gun violence in Black communities, breaking the walls of the film and screen while also articulating what Chi-Raq is actually about.
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