"Americatsi" is a triumph of human spirit over the ugliness and brutality of the dark side.
In a world that the "regime" under the pretense of "good for all" crushes every attempt for happiness by Charlie (our naive hero), and tries to to punish
his spirit in every possible way, he keeps on fighting even when he has nothing to fight with other than his smile.
Of course the regime can not enforce its evil without help from its agents:
... some agents are complete evil (like the buractrat woman in the pison)
... some are partly evil (like the warden who does a good balancing act, who tries to pepper his wrongs with some good deeds)
... some know they are pawns in the game and try their best to avoid helping evil (like the prison guard who brings food for Charlie)
... some are innocent souls stuck in that hell (like Tigran the guard at the tower); he is a kind soul that suffers the most...much more than Charlie. Tigran's suffering gets exasperated when he gets a macabre reward.
At the end, Stalin the invisible antagonist who is personification of evil, is dead; though the game goes on, perhaps forever.
Our naieve hero, Charlie, knows that but he does not care; he knows that nothing can steal his spirit away and he will always have that magical weapon with him.
"Americatsi" is a simple story about a simple man... but it tells a graet story about the spirit of mankind...
