"Vantage Point"

I've just recently watched this movie and I thought that this movie brought up some good talking points. The plot of this movie centers around a series of several flashbacks from the different perspectives of eyewitnesses, in order to reveal the story. In the end the movies reveals itself to be another American feel good, movie where western civility and heroism traunces the brutality and terrorism of the eastern infidel. It has been several years since September 11, 2001 and still it seems that the media still hung up on projecting the image of terrorism as someone who subscribes to an extreme form of Islam, associated with an organization hailing from traditionally Arabic countries, is of Middle Eastern or closely associated to someone who is, and is hell bent on committing acts of violence in order get their message across. Why are we still focusing on stereotypes that have been proven to be more insulting than accurate, if we ever hope of opeining up the lines of communication between Western and Eastern philosophy? What makes the equally violent act of counter terrorism more acceptable? How can we ever erase the existence of hateful stereotypes, when we allow them to persist in products, however discrete or blatant they maybe, knowing full well that such a product will be mass marketed to a wide audience? Yes, it's just a movie, but one misunderstood idea, can spark a whole lot more.