I can't figure out what the the point is with the story about the guy waiting for the girl by her window and on the last day he just leaves. What are we to learn from it?
That he has to value himself and his time as more important than "winning" her heart or what?
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The fact that she doesn't show any compassion by going to him before the
100 days are up, makes the whole point of "winning" her heart.....well
pointless as she doesn't seem to have one.
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In the 3-hour version (I don't know about the shorter versions), there's a conversation much later to the effect that he had no way of knowing whether she would keep her promise, and by the 99th day he realized that the possibility that she would reject him was more frightening than the certainty of losing her because he left early.
Losing someone because they reject you is harder than losing them because they die. This is similar.
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There can be 2 points to the story, the one I came up with from the 2 hour version was that he started to cry (on the 90th day) because he realised she didn't love him, how could anyone love someone and let them do that to themselves and not say anything to stop it..... So he stayed there for 99 days to show her that he was leaving voluntarily, because he has realised she was not good enough for him and the relationship would be doomed to failure.
In the 3 hour version a different take on the story is given by Toto later on, he says he realises why he left, it was because he he would rather hold on to the dream and have nothing than to be rejected on the 100th day as he feared she would not marry him even though he had completed her challenge.
Yeah, that makes sense, doesnt Toto himself give up and leave? Then she comes to him on her own as it should be, not because she felt forced or rather out of guilt.