“There are moments in a tennis match when the ball hits the net and for a tenth of a second it can continue its trajectory or fall backwards.
With a little luck he continues his path and wins.
Or maybe not, and you lose...It's scary to think about how many things we have no control over."
With these words, spoken in voiceover by its protagonist, Chris Wilton, opens “Match Point”, the disturbing and provocative film that Woody Allen released back in 2005. Wilton knew what he was talking about: a stroke of luck helped him rise socially;
another, he freed him from the sentence that he would have deserved for his crimes.
The ball this time landed on the right side for him, wrong in terms of justice.
Without entering into ethical or moral disquisitions, it is interesting to review in how many situations, and with the same elements of judgment, it is just a twist of fate that can turn someone into a hero or a villain.
I thought about it following the accident in which the Chilean Sebastián Piñera died: if the helicopter he was piloting had fallen on the other side and instead of its door it had been stuck in the water, which allowed his companions to abandon the ship and save their lives. lives, what would have happened to the former president?
Without having done one more or one less maneuver, only with another result, what would have been the judgment of public opinion - which gave him highly deserved honors - and of the media, which already remembered that he liked to fly and take risks, beyond of the advice they gave you, when you were in La Moneda?
Wilton said, “People are afraid to recognize how much of life depends on chance.”
Of chance and its mysteries.