The big turkeys valleyE

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We are in the Monument Valley of the United States, a valley famous for its natural beauty, for the silence that surrounds it, but above all because it has been the set of numerous American films.

A group of tourists enveloped by the metaphysical nature of the song "Enjoy the silence" by Depeche Mode, drive through Monument Valley enjoying its silence, unaware of the sandstorm it causes with the car and that affects two natural inhabitants of the park: the birds .

For their part (and they were really singing), they do not know that they are not alone: ​​3 turkeys, humanized here, surround the melody of the birds accompanying it with the typical verse of their species and similar to the war cry of the Native Americans. What are the turkeys who escaped Thanksgiving day by grace granted by POTUS (President of the United States)?

But merging into nature occurs when turkeys identify with birds and vice versa. The latter are amazed at the easy linguistic understanding with different species and united by a single Mother Nature who cradles them with her silence: an amazement that however leaves them doubtful.

Monument Valley, here Turkeys Valley, despite being immense, knows how to prove itself protective of its natural inhabitants unless human interference.

The quiet is in fact interrupted by the people who, despite trying to merge with Nature, remain unaware of the damage they cause as they pass through this wasteland where the fauna tries to escape to save themselves from the sandstorm caused by humans.

A consideration must be made regarding the idea of ​​travel.

Traveling today means taking lots of photos and, above all, lots of selfies with your mobile phone and posting them on social media while waiting to be "likeated" by some stranger who pretends to be a friend. The waste of selfies abounds on the web; it is perhaps an attempt to be approved by someone or even by the numerous mass of those who, even on the most remote peak in the world, manage to find some "turkey" and have enough field to post and wait for a sign to confirm its visibility, thus dedicating the short time of the holiday to something that would also do at home, that is to be on social media, missing the moments of admiration and silence of landscapes in danger of extinction.

This is the meaning of the quick final theme where photos of wrong selfies flow, a sign of this desire to confirm the lost self in the futile mass consumerism, a disease caused by the continuous search for those 15 no longer minutes but seconds of global fame that can give nanoseconds of happiness at the price of one's privacy and the loss of contact with Nature.

PS: The title "The Big Turkeys Valley" is reminiscent of the 1960s TV series "The Big Valley" which was the springboard for actor Lee Majors better known as "The Six Million Dollar Man".