Ever since first seeing this haunting, beautiful movie, I have wondered if (SPOILER ALERT) the doctor let the child that was hit by the car, die on purpose. As pay back to the boy's dad (for sleeping with his wife, Julianne Moore's character). Hi
I don't follow -- why would he do that? The man who slept with the doctor's wife, Mitchell Anderson I think his name is, isn't actually seen in the movie. The doctor would have no reason to let the boy die, as revenge or anything else; his parents are merely the news anchorman and his wife, Andie MacDowell, and I don't think there's any relation between the two couples.