American film is so dominated by male central characters and masculine cinematic points of view that it's all the more exciting to see a young woman’s consciousness represented this deeply and sensitively by a female filmmaker. How different Aimie’s way of encountering life – and director So Young Kim’s way of presenting it – is from a man’s. Kim crafts a cinematic style that parallels the way her quiet, passive female character moves through life. Like Aimie, In Between Days quietly observes, refusing to point-make, editorialize, or judge. Aimie refuses to raise her voice or make a scene, and Kim similarly refuses to stoke up the drama for dramatic effect. The entire story is told in shy sideways glances, pregnant pauses, and silences.