I've done drugs and I've never heard of being able to permanently change your brain so it's like you are on drugs.
shareWhy suspect. NZT basically enables you to access 100% of your brain. So it's not surprising that he was able to reverse engineer the drug and have the effect permanent. The ending is open-ended.
Try the Krokodil and you'll have a permanent zombie skin.
The ending to the book is different... SPOILERS
Eddie has been writing the whole novel in a cabin in the woods about his time on NZT. I don't remember exactly what happened because it was a long time ago, but I believe he's hiding from the gangsters there and has run out of NZT. He becomes progressively dumber and more out of it near the end of the book, and at the end trails off and presumably dies.
I may have to check out the book
shareSo the idea came from the book but it is not a documentary of the book.
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Well I am disappointed because at the end after he kisses his wife, the dvr had cut off and the ending of the movie was gone!
So I have no idea what happened. I read that he started speaking Chinese and suddenly his wife doesn't know if he is off the drug.
Seriously? If he is 50 steps ahead of everyone else because his brain DID change, why wouldn't he also be able to retain speaking in Chinese?
Don't forget, the first guy who had it told Eddie "it helps if you are already smart."
Meaning if you are average, it intensifies average thinking and behavior. Maybe you are motivated to study more do more, but if you are already above average or superior in IQ, yur world can indeed become limitless.
Inter4esting movie I guess.
Well, you have now! That's the point of movies - they sometimes explore fantastic concepts. I've done (a lot of) drugs too and I've never heard of that either, but that isn't really the point - It's a movie. That's like saying "I've been in a relationship and I've never had whatever [romantic movie experience]".
Sometimes in movies you have to suspend your disbelief to enjoy it. I've never done a drug that made 100% of my brain's capacity / memory / etc. function, so who knows if that were possible if you'd be able to use that knowledge/intelligence to figure out a way to continue thinking that way?
It's a movie. If they only used everyday logic it'd be boring... it's a "what if" concept.
IMO I was very pleased that they didn't end the movie with a thinly veiled "drugs are bad, they will only do bad things to you" heavy-handed "just say no" moralistic ending. I totally expected that same old B.S., so I was pleasantly surprised. The drug actually had a good effect on his life in the end.
Well, you have now! That's the point of movies - they sometimes explore fantastic concepts. I've done (a lot of) drugs too and I've never heard of that either, but that isn't really the point - It's a movie. That's like saying "I've been in a relationship and I've never had whatever [romantic movie experience]".
Sometimes in movies you have to suspend your disbelief to enjoy it. I've never done a drug that made 100% of my brain's capacity / memory / etc. function, so who knows if that were possible if you'd be able to use that knowledge/intelligence to figure out a way to continue thinking that way?
It's a movie. If they only used everyday logic it'd be boring... it's a "what if" concept.
IMO I was very pleased that they didn't end the movie with a thinly veiled "drugs are bad, they will only do bad things to you" heavy-handed "just say no" moralistic ending. I totally expected that same old B.S., so I was pleasantly surprised. The drug actually had a good effect on his life in the end.
LSD can permanently change your brain chemistry. So there's one example.
Late to this thread cause just caught it on cable...the ending was ambigious...left to one's imagination....like they say..."It is, what it is" or "it was, what it was"...LOL
shareSupposedly noopept has long lasting effects.
If any drug can have long-term bad side effects, I suppose it should be possible to have long-term good effects? Like roacutane that somehow worked for some people, they don't need to take it again 10 years later..
(this is just logic-based, not science-based)