The Last Shaman Makes Eat Pray Love Look Like A Moveable Feast

If you hated Eat Pray Love but you love The Last Shaman, you’re a hypocrite, because it’s the same goddamn story, only worse. Here’s where I out myself as someone who enjoyed Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert’s much-maligned book about dealing with divorce and mental health struggles through opulent and ascetic travel. Gilbert is a lively prose stylist, and I didn’t even mind the movie. I’m not interested in perpetuating the culturally mediated idea that women’s travel stories are fluffy lifestyle porn, while men’s journeys are important inquiries into the soul. But you might have to if you want to get through the documentary The Last Shaman, which makes Eat Pray Love look like A Moveable Feast.