When the gambler is in the chair and the junkie has to inject her with "drugs", the villain gives a pretty simplified recipe for methamphetamine when it's really obvious that the junkie is addicted to heroin, and the effects of the drug that she injects are clearly heroin. Minor gripe but still, how does that *beep* slip by?
shareMy husband and I just had this same conversation...
shareI am pretty sure that the filmmakers are just uneducated on drugs and applicable withdrawal symptoms. That, or they thought showing the girl sleeping the whole time wasn't a very good visual way to show someone coming off drugs and decided it didn't matter. But it still makes no sense, because then why not just make the drug heroin? You hear more about people OD'ing on opiates than meth anyway so it would've fit just fine.
sharethe annoying thing is you don't have to be educated in drugs to know these things, go ask any random person in the world and they can tell you that the ingredients listed are used for meth and that meth is an upper, not a sleeper. We're not nitpicking about the look of it or the way its used being wrong, things that you would have to know in order to know, we're talking about things that every person on that set should have said, "wait a second" about. Its common knowledge stuff.
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Ingredients are for Krokodil, which is a cheap heroin substitute. The average person who says "that's meth" are the ones who don't know *beep* about drugs.
shareActually sounded like he was describing Krokodil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desomorphine
shareI don't remember him mentioning codeine which is one of the primary ingredients to street krokodil.
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right, why would they put a fairly unknown street drug, unless
you live in russia, in a movie. obviously they meant meth, being how
popular shows like Breaking Bad are. sounds like someone was just trying
to seem smart
fail
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The junkie may be addicted to heroin, but what does that have to do
with anything?? He wasnt going to inject heroin into somebody's arms
who has never taken drugs before. plus, like you someone else has said
in this thread, why would the villain want her to be asleep the whole
rest of the time. There is no indication that there is heroin given,
in fact she seems very jittery and anxious the whole time, clearly
would be correct effects of meth. you are mixed up because the villain
tells the junkie "but you know the rest" after telling the basic
ingredients, but he was just saying that cause any junkie, our like
you say, anybody would in fact know whats in meth.
so,no, I don't think they made a mistake. you just need
to think and/or pay attention better.
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Don't forget that she was completely sober two hours later.
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