Enough for you: A Romance Drama on Growing Older

Justin Mawardi’s Enough for you, an 8-minute romance drama made over the course of a day, is a bottle film following a point of crisis for a young man on his 27th birthday. 

A collage of documentary footage, voiceover narration, and realist narrative, the film brings together disillusionment, loneliness, and old wounds, with the hope that love promises. Opening in Jay’s apartment, the viewer is introduced to him as a jaded, solitary figure contemplating the turns life took to find himself facing adulthood proper with all its taxes and little of its benefits. 

The film is simply made, carrying the mark of its swift production. Its most appealing aspect are the performances of its two-member cast—Hannah Raquel as Skye and Mawardi as Jay. Mawardi turns in a sensitive act that elevates the script. Their combined performance puts the emphasis on the malaise that sometimes takes hold when romance coexists with despondence. Skye turns up at his door, unannounced and insistent. Unaware, too, that it is his birthday. Roughly six of the film’s eight minutes is set in the hallway of Jay’s apartment, but Skye’s learning of the occasion marks a significant emotional and dramatic shift. Having drawn the audience in, Jay begins to look less pitiful and becomes available to shared sorrow. 

The final minute opens up the narrative to the world outside his door in a fairly restrained change that just about avoids being overblown—baby steps for the no longer babies. Enough for you achieves a pleasantly soft ending.