★★★½ (3.5/5)
Ngay sau khi ra mắt, đã vấp phải nhiều tranh cãi. Một số khán giả cho rằng những cảnh nóng giữa Park Hae-il (71 tuổi thời điểm đóng) và Kim Go-eun (20 tuổi) là không cần thiết, mang tính câu khách. Tuy nhiên, giới phê bình khẳng định đó là công cụ kể chuyện. xem phim a muse 2012
No matter the artistic framing, the core relationship is a 70-year-old man sexually obsessed with a 17-year-old girl. The film does not explicitly endorse the relationship—it shows the poet's shame and eventual downfall—but it also romanticizes his longing. Many viewers will find the nude scenes and the voyeuristic tone hard to stomach. ★★★½ (3
Minh paused the movie. His own reflection stared back from the black screen—a network of wrinkles, age spots, tired eyes. "You old fool," he whispered to himself. Not to the poet on screen, but to the man he was in 1969. You should have burned the poem in front of her. You should have said something. No matter the artistic framing, the core relationship