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"May's initial supportive attitude predictably turns sour, not on account of that Sing is making a depraved picture, but a woman's sensitive insecurity and the frustration spawned from constant neglect. Meantime, possible snags tamely crops up during the film production, you name it, Sing's clash with his friend-cum-producer Chung (Law Kar-Ying), with the uncooperative Mango, with Boss Wong for sure, even when the film is wrapped, a conflagration nearly becomes its undoing. Like everywhere else, a true film director always has to combat between creating masses-pandering consumer goods or true-to-self artwork, and VIVA EROTICA pointedly foregrounds that self-reflexive awareness. At one point, the acclaimed director Derek Yee (played by Lau Ching-Wan) commits suicide after his latest movie goes belly up, whereas a populist director (a cameo played by Anthony Wong, and is alluded to Wong Jing, the prolific, low-brow schlockmeister who has his heyday at that time) is shown as a brazen scumbag."

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