Instead, the film delivers a bitter pill of reality. Checco does not change the system; he cannot. The system is too big, too entrenched. To resolve the plot, the state essentially bribes him to leave—a golden handshake. It is a cynical conclusion that suggests the only way to fix the inefficiency of the public sector is to pay it off. It is a hilarious, yet defeatist, commentary on the state of the Italian economy.
Checco represents the " Culture of the Proxy." He is the human embodiment of the bureaucratic hurdle—the man who sits in an office that seemingly serves no purpose, stamping documents and waiting for his pension. The brilliance of the film lies in how it makes the audience root for this figure. We laugh at his incompetence, but there is a terrifying realization that Checco is not a caricature invented for the movie; he is an amalgamation of real-life inefficiencies found in the Italian public administration.