The French Film, 17 Girls

I will give you 17 reasons NOT to see this French film based on true events in one high school in 2008.  A beautiful & popular girl finds herself pregnant and entices her group of 16 friends to become pregnant and then form a utopian, communal home with their babies.  They will care for each other & each other's children giving meaning to their banal existence. The ringleader, Camille, the 1st to find herself pregnant @ age 16 was initially frightened.  Nonetheless, she finds her life empty and void of meaning. Her mother works long hours leaving her alone, her brother is a soldier far from home. Camille decides to keep her baby, she believes "I will now have someone who will love ME unconditionally."  Camille and her tight knit group of girlfriends all agree they live dull, empty lives.  The girls make a pact to all coneive together.  Sadly, they are successful in their misguided rationale. There was plenty of blame to go around; the principal, school nurse, parents and Camille.  At a parent/school meeting the nurse suggests dispensing condoms to the students which is met with outrage.  I believe partial blame is owed the media which glamourizes teen pregnancy, as in the reality series Teen Moms.  I do NOT recommend this movie, (I walked out early.)  It was too oppressive knowing these young women's futures will be dismal along with the live's of their unborn children.  However, the means to prevent teen pregnancies is one that needs to be seriously & constantly addressed.