Brillante Mendoza’s second shot at the SONA

Award-winning movie director Brilliante Mendoza’s camera angles for President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s second State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday were generally well received, save for a few awkward shots and habits seemingly hard to break.

Praises were generally given to Mendoza’s use of black and white visual aids throughout key topics in the President’s speech. These included environment and mining issues, in which Mr. Duterte described the P70-billion tax the government collected from miners a pittance compared to the destruction on nature.