‘Archive 81’ Review: Netflix’s Creepy Series Finds Its Scares By Restoring Memories Of The Past
To paraphrase 20th Century French theorist Roland Barthes, the moment we take a picture of something, it is already dead. Similarly, early cinema writer (and fellow Frenchman) Andre Bazin, thought that new technology evoked what he called the “mummy complex” — humankind’s urge to look to its past, to preserve these memories in amber, and to review them from a future moment.