Sarcasm is an adjusted stress reaction.

I didn't even remember that it had background music. It's been Years since I've seen it, really...

I was thinking quiet/big in the emotional and thematic and dramatic tension ways -- the way it just quietly builds on itself and your emotions so subtly, you hardly notice how deeply you're drawn in until the closing credits roll, and you surface for air.

(unintentional whale imagery was unintentional).