As seasoned in visual effects cinema as perhaps all but Cameron, Spielberg, and George Lucas, the director maximizes the impact of this fundamental scene, letting us look behind the curtain of
a relatable modern experience turned vivid nightmare.
It was
modern and fresh — the references to Google stalking, and online dating were right on the money, and, as you can see from my notes above, every section of the hour and a half long musical was directly
relatable to blind date
experiences... of which I've had an awful lot in the last three months!