For people like me who didn’t know much about the subject matter, I thought that The Pruit-Igoe Myth needed to expand a bit more. The filmmaker is obviously sympathetic to the former residents, and emphasizes that poverty or skin color isn’t a moral failing, it does not do enough to address how internal problems among the residents are explicitly caused by external factors. The former residents do a great job explaining how the housing complex started as a dream come true for those living in horrid conditions and how public policy can later have unintentional negative individual effect. Unfortunately after citing how a policy created problems, the former resident would complain about fellow residents’ bad behavior that probably sparked those seemingly inhumane policies without the movie then explicitly examining why that bad behavior arose except anecdotally. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth does attempt to show how de facto segregation influenced government funding towards home ownership for white people and public housing that once funding was decreased turned into ghettos for black people, but more juxtaposition between talking heads and those who lived there would have provided more than sympathetic evidence. For those interested in this subject, I would suggest watching the PBS documentary, Race-the Power of an Illusion, especially Part 3: The House We Live In, THEN watch The Pruit-Igoe Myth.