Final Destination 3 and Senseless American Carnage
Death has always had a plan in the Final Destination franchise, but it could be outwitted or, at least, temporarily stymied. The first film made a joke out of Its clumsiness, you could feel the mastermind behind the grand guignol mousetrap design get flustered when his prey eluded a fatal misstep. Final Destination 2 ended with a joke death, nevertheless a grim reminder. Until now, the series’s tone has been ghastly and unrelenting, in keeping with the nation’s mood after the double-punch of Columbine and 9/11. By 2006, the death malaise had set in. Into the second half of the decade, melancholic meditations on terror and grieving like Munich and 25th Hour , made by Steven Spielberg and Spike Lee, respectively two of the most significant voices in cinema, had done the heavy lifting in trying to move forward from tragedy. After the atrocities of Abu Ghraib and beheading videos, things got ugly. These real-life horrors gave way to torture porn that found success in the S...
