Imagine someone asking you to recite Hamlet's "To be or not to be." Would you scoff at the idea of trying to memorize one of theater's best known, and toughest, soliloquies? Would you think the guy who asked you was off his rocker?
Well, that someone has a name: Linas Phillips. And, a couple of years ago, he did just that: asked people to perform poems, sermons, and monologues that he would then film. All the people he approached were struggling with homelessness, and 10 of them trusted him enough to help carry out his vision.
It could have turned into a gimmick, some cinema-verit