Help with Uncle Boonmee

People have come out of the Tuesday afternoon screening perplexed and mystified by this strange film.

I don't know if it's any help but when I went to see it at Ludlow Assembly Rooms the friend I was with quoted the following lines from  the beginning of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (The Burial of the Dead):

(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),   

And I will show you something different from either 

Your shadow at morning striding behind you  

Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;