Spoilers ahead. In July 2016, photojournalist Raffy Lerma’s Pietà, an image that depicts Jennilyn Olayres cradling the lifeless body of her partner and drug suspect Michael Siaron, resembling Michelangelo’s widely celebrated sculpture, made headlines amid former President Rodrigo Duterte’s so-called war on drugs — an image whose veracity has been questioned by no less than the populist leader himself and arguably the most chilling visual account of a bloody and brutal period in contemporary Philippines. The photograph has recently re-entered the consciousness of the public through the silver screen, particularly in Mae Paner’s documentary Tao Po (2021) and Lav Diaz’s...