Matthew Heineman: When I first set foot in Mexico I really felt like I was telling a classic hero / villain story of guys
in white shirts fighting against guys in black shirts in the classic Western sense.
Especially on the Mexican side of the story, I thought I was telling this very simple hero / villain story, of guys
in white shirts fighting guys in black hats.
Not exact matches
So when I first went down to Michoacán I really felt like it was this hero - villain story, of good
fighting evil, of men
in white shirts going
in to
fight this evil cartel.
Warring factions
in the Mexican state of Michuacán have taken the lives of innocents and filled the streets with unlicensed armaments
in their crossfire: drug cartels like the Knights Templar have terrorized the people for years, while the
white T -
shirt - wearing Autodefensas, led by Dr. Jose Mireles, have
fought to protect the civilians, though their methods are as illegal as their drug - trafficking opposition.
It is also a comical and entertaining account of A Man Called Ove and his peculiar ways... an honest man with strict principles who abhors «the men
in white shirts» that have done him wrong, a man who
fights for what's right, a man who will no longer be cheated out of a kroner, a man who eventually becomes (view spoiler)[a hero and loved by all.