Time, by 2013, the Philippines had the highest homicide rate in Asia and 11th worldwide. In addition to its high crime rates, over 21% of the population continues to live under the poverty line. The Filipino people craved change to the status quo, and Duterte came across as exactly that. Ever the crowd-raiser, he’s casually made public statements confessing past murders as former mayor, and said a gang rape victim was so beautiful that he wished he would’ve “been first.” He presented an anti-drug campaign, a call to action and encouragement of citizens to take matters into their own hands and to kill their fellow Filipino brethren in the hopes of curbing mass drug trafficking and usage.inducing woods in a gloomy, low budget feature that sets its own standards instead of abiding by any standardized rules. In a time ruled by PG-13 tropes and lame found footage features, director Robert Eggers stretches outside the bounds of what we normally see and presents a story that exists more in the unseen than extreme gore or graphic detail. His Witch gives us dim lighting, substantial mood, and old world fears of unknown evils lying in wait beyond the edge of the forest. As the film slowly unravels in a droning but heavy feeling of encroaching creepiness, Eggers' theatrical offering lives in a microcosm of parental doom and twisted lurking darkness. While the movie unhurriedly weaves a fable of malaise and foreboding, Eggers also captures man's desire