For a long time I have had a deep interest in schizophrenia, I think mental illnesses like this in ten have not been portrayed in the media. There have been several films showing schizophrenia in pop culture. I really liked one of these films. The movie Sucker Punch is based on the inner thoughts and imagination of the main character, Baby Doll. The film is set partly in Baby Doll's reality and partly in the imaginary world she creates, as an escape. Her imaginary world is full of wise men, huge ninjas, punk Russian Nazis, dragons and cyborgs, bad guys who attack her as she tries to seek freedom. All these figures symbolize the people Baby Doll encounters in her reality and the unimaginable situations she has to face. His reality is filled with real-life villains, his abusers. These unimaginable situations include sexual and physical abuse. Throughout the film it is evident that Baby Doll suffers from a dissociative disorder. Over the course of the film Baby Doll delves into different dream worlds that tell the audience what is really happening in the film, how she sees her world. If the viewer pays close attention, it is revealed that Baby Doll may be suffering from undiagnosed schizophrenia. The dream worlds that Baby Doll falls deeply into are coping mechanisms that she uses to dissociate herself from the abuse she has suffered, at the hands of her step forward. Then the dream worlds are used to help Baby Doll deal with the sexual abuse she suffers at the hands of crooked orderlies and others in the asylum her stepfather sends her to, after the attack in which her sister is killed. There are several indications that the spread of paper... occurred in the 1950s; during the 1950s one method of treatment for schizophrenia was lobotomy. In the middle of the film the audience is watching this film which gives great insight into the mind of a mentally ill young woman. The film shows how her illness may have been triggered in the young Baby Doll. Young Baby Doll learned to dissociate from her surroundings when the abuse from her stepfather began. She created a dream world where she was the heroine, to escape the reality where she was the victim. The film vividly shows the imaginary world that those diagnosed with schizophrenia and other symptoms they may display might fall into. A person suffering from schizophrenia often cannot distinguish between what is real and what is not. It is evident that worlds full of dragons and giant ninjas are not something that is not real.