Story - What is the point?

This story comes in the film Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, an italian film written and directed by Guiseppe Tornatore.

The ending is very powerful and maked a very deep impression on anybody who reads it. But "what is the point?" is a question that most ask after reading it. But the question is, does a story need to have a point?. I believe that there are certain stories whose "point" or "moral" depends on the reader and the answer is there with the reader himself. The story does have a point. Go on, read it and explore.

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!