Match Point and The Selfish Gene

In his bleak but marvellously written book “The Selfish Gene”, Richard Dawkins summed up his philosophy of life in the following words :"the universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."
Rarely has this philosophy been so chillingly deployed as in Woody Allen's latest film “Match Point”.
Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is a young former tennis professional who charms his way into a top-notch executive position in the City. We have no difficulty agreeing with Chris that his success is the result of incredibly good luck. He does not have to fight off any rivals for any of the positions that he is recommended for. He just free-wheels into them, the promotion that he is offered always being someone else's idea. All the while, he is saving his aggression for another area of his life: his passionate affair with Nola Rice, his brother-in-law's hapless fiancée. That is only the area of his life in which he takes any of his own decisions, and they turn out to be less than fortunate ones to say the least.
The upshot is that Chris's apparently amazing good luck is put to the test when he makes a reckless decision, leaving a trail of evidence that the most witless sleuth would be able to pick up. He bides his time, waiting for the axe to fall. But it doesn't. His position - elevated above the Thames and the crawling masses - remains unthreatened, but we get the impression that he actually feels cheated ... cheated by good luck!