My Movie Compilation Video

It’s the end of the first month of the two month winter break or the two month internship and I have almost completed watching the movies under the “Movies I should have seen by now” category, last being The Motorcycle Diaries. As usual with these 2 month breaks I tend to dawdle away the first month in movies and sitcoms and I have pretty much carried forward the tradition with my lassitude at an all-time high. While maintaining the status quo, I decided to complete the compilation video I started during the end sems. With my intended below par performance in CAT and FMS, courtesy RBS placement, the end sems seemed to lack the requisite drive to score marks. And during that time I just happened to download the Windows Live package, which consisted of the Windows Movie Makers software. Much similar and better software were available on the net but my indolence let me to endure the Movie Maker. During the end sems everything seeming insipid before is enjoyable and fun and in this case the fun part was inherent throughout.

Making a compilation of anything, be it music or movies, is a very subtle art. You can add tracks or movie scenes which seem awesome at the moment, but you might end up regretting why the hell they were even included in the first place. Coming back to my video, the music unequivocally is the sine qua non of any compilation video and I just couldn’t find any one song relevant to each of the eclectic movies I find memorable and worthy enough to be included in my compilation. There were songs relating to the anomic state of Rober De Niro’s character in Taxi Driver or the gallivanting jaunts in Into The Wild, but with me getting otiose time and again and the necessity of me passing the end sems,

I eventually settled for a song ‘Platform Moon’ from an unknown band Jupiter One. I heard it the first time in Fifa 2009 game from EA sports, and it just connected with some of the movies with tinges of trance effect, and the part just after 4 minutes had me contemplating the placing of various movie scenes and that’s when I realized how awesome this was going to be. Although it did become an enjoyable red herring from Compilers but it did tend to be cumbersome at times, mainly because of the lyrics in the song, making me ponder over why I didn’t chose a song with no lyrics. Finally when I managed to connect all the lyrics, it felt incomplete. With me getting capricious and insouciant, dithering over deleting the entire project I decided to explore more movies ensuing with the final completed version.

The final result is what a maladroit person like can create or collate in this case. I did miss out the glowering Kubrick gaze but there are loads of similar panaches from different directors and in the end it’s just a personal choice. And I had to include LOST too. There are glitches in editing at points (it sounds great when you say stuff like that) but it was satisfactory to me. The provenance of my movie craze dates back to December 2007 when broadband was installed at my home and in came torrents and IMDB. The biased views on IMDB, nevertheless, it offers a very easy to use interface with a fairly good managed recommendation section. It all contributed to making movies a passion for me and I was mesmerized by the lugubrious miasma of the city presented in Collateral, the surreal effect of Lost in Translation, the stygian circumstances and the subsequent escape in Shawshank Redemption, the trenchant outlook of disgruntled people in Fight Club, the disdainful demeanor in American History X, the circuitous presentations in most of Christopher Nolan’s movies including the enthralling oneirc world of Inception, the elegiac fecundity of 21 grams, the incessant shocking sequences from Requiem for a Dream, the heart rending and action packed Saving Private Ryan, so on….and of course the Dark Night and the Matrix Trilogy(their names are enough).

Catharsis Volume 1

One week into the placement season and I am seeing those overboard congratulations on facebook vis a vis”PHOD DIYA”…..and with me not clearing the written initially, I barely could manage the half-hearted, supposedly concerning wishes on walls. That initial impasse was obvious considering my quotidian schedule consisting of 2 hours of technical preparation followed by verbal, quant and LRDI. Rarely did I make any progress in any of the latter fronts despite impressive boosts in Verbal but the most shocking thing was that despite maintaining a sense of equanimity at home and in my attitude, after those subsequent fuck ups, I was very confused as to what direction I need to follow, what should I focus on specifically with regard to the company coming to the campus. And as a result I tried to parse everything, case studies, questions on C, checking out programs on Geeks for Geeks, Crack the interview, an abundance of eclectic questions, making my situation all the more perplexing.

However, the status quo maintained as far the mocks were concerned, in fact with side by side failures on placements and mocks I was returning to square one time and again, calling for beleaguered times ahead. May be that’s why I got addicted to a plaintive soundtrack, “Ghosts” from Requiem for a Dream. With failures came the aggravating appraisals….what happened this time???….aj bhi kat gaya?? The words “kat gaya” have a very frustrating and abysmally hurting effect. So ruefully going back home, when any of my friends asked the same annoying question as regards the reasons for the current failure, I am reminded of a gristly scene in Reservoir Dogs where Michael Madsen delightfully cuts off a bound policeman’s right ear while dancing to the tune from a very zestful song, “Stuck in the Middle with you”. The scene got revamped in my mind with me doing those things to anyone who enquires about my fuck ups, eventually showing them their mutilated ears and asking them the question…YOU STILL WANT TO “HEAR” WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO ME AT THE INTERVIEW???

I still remember how my friends tried to console me after observing my grim demeanor. But little did they know that instead of taking their inordinately clichéd and excruciating advises I was imagining situations in which I could just some slam their heads or like play out the Swordfish interrogation scene with John Cheadle asking for the other guy’s weight. Controlling my tempestuous responses in my mind, I continued to move on from one company to another, hoping for a sinecure job, so that I could focus on CAT. Adding vent to my quagmire, even movies and sitcoms previously considered as red herrings were losing their sheen.

Parsing each interview, looking for possible lacunae, I realized the PSUs were the worst in terms of the quality of questions asked (Difference between Macro and Function) and I myself was downright pathetic during my “Silent Treatment” during my first GD on a slightly incongruous question:”Vada Pao vs Mc Donald’s burger”. All the time I made efforts to put forward my point, expressing tacit comprehensions and when eventually asked to summarize I used words like” More or less”, therefore, the consequent rejection at Smart Cube. Even at Samsung where I managed in the last 14 student on clearing the written I didn’t write OPTMIZED CODES.


Relieving myself from the impending nadir, I reached the interview stage of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in a sort of pyrrhic manner. I had very nugatory information about it, until it came to our campus. From all the 3 companies that came in that week, I only cleared the written for RBS. With 2 months gone since Adobe (the first company to come in our campus), preparation for a company becomes a very painstakingly insipid procedure. Fifa 2009 indeed was comforting. After clearing the written and ruminating on everything that led up to that brilliance in the 2 interview sessions instead of 3, I felt glad that I had been consistently fucking it all up until RBS considering its package and the sector the company is in which completely overhauls my CAT 2010 prospects. Now writing the volume 1 of this catharsis on my blog which I started a year ago mainly to focus on topics like recession (all those topics did help in RBS), thinking about the time to assuage my predilections which unfortunately is short-lived, reading Harry Potter and The Deathly Hollows for the 3rd time, I feel relaxed after a long time. The agent smith aggression in the picture is just an understatement.