As with Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul 's previous film, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Mekong Hotel moves between the real world of humans and the magical world of monsters, goblins, ghosts, and spirits. Some of the guests in the hotel, which is on the banks of the slow and wide Mekong River, are human, and others are not. The ones who are not human desire human guts; the ones who are human spend their time thinking about the past, thinking about love, thinking about the region, the river, the people on the river. (CHARLES MUDEDE)