Man's Search For Meaning

In Man's Search For Meaning Frankl states that the prisoners who gave up on life and commited suicide did so because, with the situation they were put in and the day to day torture they went through, they saw no reason to live. The only prisoners who resisted giving up and continued to live were the ones that saw hope for the future. They found their menaing and reason to live on. As Frankl said, "..the attempt to restore a man's inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal. Nietzsche's words, " He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how," "

In the movie  La Vita è Bella,  Roberto Benigni's character truely embraces  Frankl's philosophy. The moment he figures out that he and his son are being put into a concentration camp Roberto saw his meaning and his future. His reason for being alive and pretending everything was okay was his son and his wife and the possible future of all of them coming out of the concentration camp together.