Who is that person, who am I?

Do we, in today's society, understand how influential our decisions our on our life? The average person watches over 2 hours of television a day. What if individuals chose quality media to consume instead of mindless entertainment in those few hours everyday?
One of my day's choices would include the move Crash. It makes you re-evaluate your definition and identification with a specific group. The movie's website even has a mini emotional experience study to make a bigger point in that individuals interpret other's reactions in a unique way everyday. Lippmann also says, "we cannot fully understand the acts of other people, until we know what they think they know." A tag line the producers is "You think you know who you are. You have no idea." I think this fits the movie well.
Racism is a key theme in the film. It is constructed of multiple layers of stories that seem to come full circle by the end as they slowly become involved in each other. I think, for myself, I came to the conclusion that stereotypes are created out of fear rather than dislike. The younger officer actually was an advocate for the equal treatment of black citizens. However, out of fear, he passes final judgement on a character at the end of the movie based on the color of his skin. The director's character, Cameron, overdid it with accepting that he was black when he stood up to the police after he seemed to steal his own car. After the episode, he said to the carjacker in his car, Anthony, "Look at me. You embarrass me. You embarrass yourself." Anthony was fulfilling that stereotype that others created of young black men.
I think by association with other movies, characters come with a stereotyped emotional response if a viewer has already seem them in another movie. For example, I had seen Hotel Rwanda and felt like I should pay attention and have more apathy towards Don Cheadle. This preconceived concept on my part worked alright, but then I had also seen Mummy with Brenden Frasier. In that movie he seemed to have a more lovable role which conflicted with is role in Crash. I'm unsure of how to go about fixing this, but for me it seemed to have a negative effect on my viewing of it.
Overall, I would re-watch the movie, which speaks highly of a movie for me. I don't know if I would go so far as to buying it, but I would definitely rent it again and choose it when my friends were trying to decide what movie to watch on a Saturday night.