Spike Lee believes Chi-Raq will save lives on the south side of Chicago and beyond—but so far he’s done a poor job of articulating how that will happen.
“I don’t think that comes from a messianic point of view,” Cusack said. “But if Spike or other artists didn’t believe that art didn’t have the possibility for a voice for change, then we wouldn’t do it. There’s a part of us that believes art is supposed to effect change.”
And when asked by a former Chicagoan how “a New York cat is going to tell Chicago’s story,” Lee went on the defensive.
