https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqAzW6t91To

In the film Cinema Paradiso an old man tells his young mentee the following fairy tale:

Once upon a time a king gave a feast and there were all the most beautiful princesses of the realm. Basta, one of the guards, saw the king's daughter: she was the loveliest of all! And he immediately fell in love with her. But what could a poor soldier do compared with a king's daughter?!...One day he managed to meet her and told her he couldn't live without her. The princess was so struck by the depth of his feeling that she said to the soldier 'If you will wait a hundred days and a hundred nights beneath my balcony, then in the end I'll be yours.' Christ, the soldier ran off there and waited! One day, two days, ten, twenty...Every night she looked out of her window, but he never budged. Come rain, wind, snow, never budged! The birds shat on him and the bees ate him alive! After ninety nights he was gaunt and pale and tears streamed from his eyes but he couldn't hold them back. He didn't even have the strength to sleep any more. The princess kept watch...And on the ninety-ninth night, the soldier got up, picked up his chair and left!

The boy asks the old man what the story means, and the old man says "If you figure it out, let me know..."

Later, the boy (AFC personified, except for the guts to get into a confession booth) has some experiences of his own and figures out an answer (Edit: fixed to link to the right video), which he explains at the end of the video linked at the top of this post.

Afterwards the mentor Alfredo, tells him that "life is not like the movies. It's much harder" and urges him to go away and go live his own life.

It's one thing to be exposed to certain ideas through people's posts and blogs, it's another to see it in art. The whole thing is an eloquent statement about giving up one's illusions and MGTOW.