Yes, Lisa Rowe gets released as Susanna runs into her at Harvard Square with a son years later. Her life has become that of a suburban single mother. During her institutionalization, Lisa was known for her escapes, which lasted a couple of days, and her scheming nature.
After leaving McLean, Susanna mentions that she kept in touch with Georgina and eventually saw Lisa, now a single mother who was about to board the subway with her toddler son and seemed, although quirky, to be sane.
Lisa Cody eventually is diagnosed as a sociopath as well, and this enrages Lisa. The two of them engage in an escalating battle of wits, exchanging insults and pranks until Lisa effectively drives Lisa Cody off the ward. Lisa Cody escapes, and Lisa later finds her living on the streets of Cambridge, addicted to drugs.
Lisa is proud of her diagnosis as a sociopath, a personality driven by self-interest. Lisa is wildly unpredictable. She throws tantrums and plans escapes for others when she isn't making her own attempts to escape. Kaysen is initially in awe of Lisa's apparent confidence.
Susanna finally tells Lisa that no one cares if she dies because she is already dead and her heart is cold. She also tells Lisa that she will begin her life again out of this hospital without Lisa and the others.
Daisy keeps the chicken carcasses under her bed to mark her time at McLean Hospital. A deeper psychological assessment is not provided other than the suspicion that Daisy's father was in love with his daughter. Daisy would receive two roasted chickens a week from her father.
But Lisa's hatefulness soon surfaces in short order and she verbally attacks Daisy, exposing the fact that Daisy's has had an incestuous relationship with her father for years and this leaves Daisy desperate and in tears. Though Susanna tries to sooth things over, Daisy withdraws to her room.
It is surmised by the other girls that Daisy used laxatives due to all the roast chicken she was eating. Daisy's father visited twice a week and brought her an entire roasted chicken from her mother.
Brittany Murphy as Daisy Randone, a sexually abused eighteen-year-old girl with OCD who self-harms and is addicted to laxatives.
Lisa reports back to the other girls that Daisy has stashed rows of whole chicken carcasses beneath her bed, and uses the laxatives to help her pass the enormous amounts of poultry she consumes.
Daisy Randone is an 18-year-old who suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), has been sexually abused by a trusted adult, and has learned to rely on maladaptive coping strategies, such as bulimia and self-harm. She is introduced early in the film as a pretentious, but kind patient on the ward.
Janet Webber – anorexia. Cynthia – lesbian (a “diagnosis” that would not be made now). Unnamed character – Tourette's syndrome. The movie takes place in 1967 and 1968.
While the thematic emphasis in the book is put on Susanna and her borderline personality disorder, the cinematic version of Girl, Interrupted by James Mangold is more concerned with the actual events on the ward and the relationship between the girls.
Although the two have a rocky start, Lisa quickly warms up to Susanna, who idolizes her rebellious, cool roommate. It's clear that the two of them love each other, but it's less clear whether they're doing each other more good than bad. Challenge… avoiding therapy and getting Susanna to do it, too.
Before Susanna leaves, she visits Lisa in seclusion, who is strapped to the bed, and paints her nails. It's the small acts of intimacy in this film that display how great female friendship can be.
In the book, the hospital gets word that Daisy has committed suicide, and everyone is upset about it. The movie turns this into a more pivotal moment. They have Lisa and Susanna escape and go to Daisy's to rest before continuing on their escape.
Daisy is a beautiful, well-groomed young woman whose only real outward sign of her illness is being reclusive and unwilling to socialize. However, she suffers from severe obsessive compulsive disorder and a laxative addiction, and is also deeply traumatized from a lifetime of abuse at the hands of her father.
Susanna is a protagonist on whom the film is mainly focused. During the narration, she meets many characters, and Daisy Randone is among them. Daisy is a young female suffering from eating and mood disorders, which is evident from many scenes. She is a significant but considerably devastating person in the movie.
Last weekend I enjoyed watching Girl, Interrupted (1999) for the first time, a movie that is based on a true story and Susanna Kaysen's memoir of the same name.
Eventually, Gatsby won Daisy's heart, and they made love before Gatsby left to fight in the war. Daisy promised to wait for Gatsby, but in 1919 she chose instead to marry Tom Buchanan, a young man from a solid, aristocratic family who could promise her a wealthy lifestyle and who had the support of her parents.
Daisy is eager to please and willing to give her all to help this suffering Mexican-American family. Sadly, she seems to have PTSD herself after a brutal first home where she was forced to fight other dogs and the loss of her litter of puppies to a garbage truck (a terrifying scene revealed in flashback).
Lisa : [to Daisy] Help me understand, Dais 'cause, I thought you didn't do Valium. Tell me how this safety net is working for you. Tell me that you don't take that blade and drag it across your skin and pray for the courage to press down. Tell me how your *daddy* helps you cope with that.
Lisa Rowe is a character played by Angelina Jolie. She is a twenty-year-old permanent patient who was admitted when she was twelve. Rowe has been diagnosed as a sociopath or anti-social personality disorder.
Answer and Explanation: Lisa finds a way to enter Daisy's room with a gift of laxatives and sees the chicken carcasses Daisy has placed under her bed. Daisy's father brings her a roasted chicken every other week. She then meticulously eats the chicken while also exhibiting a need for laxatives.
It teaches a huge, multi-faceted lesson to all of us: think before you speak, remember that you don't know what other people are going through, and be aware that you don't know if they are stable or not. Do not say unnecessary or cruel things, and do not attempt to push someone's buttons.