Ok this bugged me to no end. If you injected straight vodka wouldn't you know instantly? Wouldn't it burn like hell? Also it was like one shot. She wouldn't be drunk out of her mind like that. I thought she was driving like that due to her not getting insulin. Wouldn't she have gone in a coma without it? Would have been better if she watered down the insulin or something. Oh well.
shareIt would take more than one skipped dose of insulin to fall into a coma. Since I've never injected straight insulin however, I don't know if it would burn. However, the voda was shot straight into her bloodstream. When you drink a shot of vodka, some if it is absorbed by the food in your stomach, or passes through your system and into your pee. But in this case, the vodka went straight into her blood and that's why so little of it got her drunk.
shareInformative answer, farelite. Thanks!
share"However, the vodka was shot straight into her bloodstream."
No, it wasn't. Insulin injections are given into fat tissue, not directly into the bloodstream. Yes, the alcohol would probably get into the bloodstream a little faster than being ingested (like how kids nowadays soak tampons in alcohol, or put it in their eyes), but with the TINY amount of alcohol that got into her system, she wouldn't even feel the effects of it, let alone get 'drunk driving" drunk.
It was a pretty hilarious plot hole though...one of many...just like the inexplicably exploding car from no impact whatsoever. I love it when idiotic filmmakers do that!
My wife and I wondered about that, too. I'm only guessing but I think that was too small an amount, injected or not, to do the job they depicted in the movie. A "shot" of alcohol is usually 1 ounce. The insulin syringe contained 1 cc. There are 29 ccs in an ounce, so it was a VERY small amount.
I also wondered if it would show up on a breathalyzer.