A story that Alfredo the projectionist tells Salvatore:
" Once...a king gave a feast for the loveliest princesses in the realm. Now, a soldier who was standing guard saw the king's daughter go by. She was the most beautiful of all... and he instantly fell in love. But what is a simple soldier next to the daughter of a king?
Well, at last he succeeded in meeting her... and he told her he could no longer live without her. The princess was so taken by the depth of his feeling that she said to the soldier: ''lf you can wait for 100 days and 100 nights under my balcony at the end of it, l shall be yours.''
With that, the soldier went and waited one day... two days, then ten, then twenty. Each evening the princess looked out and he never moved! ln rain, in wind, in snow, he was always there. Birds shat on his head, bees stung him... but he didn't budge. At the end of 90 days he had become all dry, all white. Tears streamed from his eyes. He couldn't hold them back. He didn't even have the strength to sleep. And all that time, the princess watched him.
At long last, it was the 99th night and the soldier stood up, took his chair and left."
Toto: "What? At the end?"
Alfredo: "At the very end. And don't ask what it means. l don't know. If you understand it, you tell me."
Well... this was the story. The movie is a greater story than that. A story of growing up. Growing up with the movies... But, to quote Alfredo again, he makes it not to sound like a cliche: "Life isn't like in the movies. Life... is much harder".
Cinema Paradisio (1988) (aka Nuovo Cinema Paradisio)
directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
awards: Cannes Festival Grand Prize of the Jury (1989)
awards: Oscar for best foreign language film (1990)
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