Unanswerable or is it?

What makes us who we are? What determines the decisions we make? Do we weigh consequennces, benefits vs. losses like balancing a checkbook? Are we aware? Yes, I just saw matchpoint and found it be a much thinner version of "crimes and misdemeanors" which is devastating and clearly a tragedy. It seems that Woody has fixated on a few themes which he continues to obsess over and attempt to work out through different modes of dramatization. Can we understand human suffering and love best via tragedy or comedy? Personally I saw a Freudian element at work in the character of the protagonist, ie: his father in law who in his own words "loved him" and also provided for him replaced the alcoholic father from whom he had escaped, most likely not much of a provider or nurturer. If we go that route we can call Nola his Id and Chloe his super-ego, always reminding him of what he should be doing to satisfy her/ his father...Or we can take a feminist perspective and look at the virgin/ whore decision similar to the main female characters in both "the Idiot" and to a certain extent, "crime and punishment", although the women are more complex/ multi-dimensional in Notes from the underground" and Bros Karamazov and in most of Woody's other films. Also from a Marxist perspective: mustn't one have a certain amount of self-loathing to live in the spoils of inherited old money" (British noless) when one is familiar with the suffering of the working class (Irish no-less) Also why is Chris so impressed with the ultra-bourgoise "generousity" of funding the arts and taking care of one's own family, while being well acquainted with the suffering of th elower classes? Well, maybe this is the classic inferiority complex at work and we go back to psycho-analysis, (Adler), but seriously, there are far less contrived and thereby more realistic ways of demonstrating the impact of luck in our lives, those plot points were too heavy handed to be believable...