The eyebrow-raising plot has thinly veiled Jagger proxy Mick heading to Brazil to shoot a video, then getting kidnapped and turned over to the oversexed owner of a banana plantation.
As you may have already heard, Chi-Raq's eyebrow-raising plot is an audaciously faithful update of Aristophanes's bawdy 411 BC play Lysistrata, in which the eponymous character persuades her fellow women to withhold sex from their partners so that they will stop the Peloponnesian War.
It's a shame that their skilled performances can't soar due to the weight of the rest of the movie ― not just the eyebrow-raising plot, but the murky, depressing lighting more fit for the above-mentioned psychological thriller than a teen rom-com, and numerous offensive throwaway lines about weight, gender and sexuality.
By the end, one thing is clear: it might take a well-populated village to raise a plot, but it takes three or four strong characters to keep that plot in motion.
An increase in total impedance of the system for the anodised condition is observed, together with a shift to higher frequencies in the high-frequency domain of the phase angle vs frequency plot, raising the angle close to 90º.
It was part political salon, part community center, with Florent Morellet and his staff raising money and plotting demonstrations for causes: global, national, local.
He dug even deeper into his garden, expanding the plot and raising old-fashioned breeds of poultry.
But the fourth episode, which included a neck-wrenching twist in the plot, raised critical hackles again.
Ms. Brown has lost 30 pounds, in part by eating the beets, green beans, lettuce and other greens she raises on her plot in the local community garden.
The questions raised in the plot of "Irving Berlin's White Christmas" are resolved as predictably as they are in any old-fashioned musical comedy.
And while the plot raises a few intriguing ideas -- the notion of authenticity, the blurred line between fact and fiction -- it seldom stops to explore them.
