Share your bread with the hungry,
shelter the oppressed and the homeless.
shelter the oppressed and the homeless.
--Isaiah 58:7
On the first day of shooting his new movie, [Time Out of Mind,] director Oren Moverman had an unusual task for his star, Richard Gere: He wanted the famous actor to stand in New York City's bustling Astor Place with an empty coffee cup begging for change.
Moverman needed the scene for "Time Out of Mind," in which Gere radically goes against type to play a homeless man. But the filmmaker soon realized it served another purpose.
"Richard stood there for 40 minutes. No one gave him a cent. No one even recognized him," Moverman said. "And that proved the whole point: The homeless are all around us and we don't see them."
--Dan Evon
Do we see the hungry and the homeless?
Do we help?
Or do we turn away?
Do we help?
Or do we turn away?
Image & quotation source: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/richard-gere-homeless/

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