The Daredevil opening

It makes me sad to say that theme songs are slowly going away or just becoming title cards. So you can understand my surprise when I watched the first episode of Daredevil, and it had an opening theme. The show didn't have to make an opening, or it could have just been some generic shots of a city. But it is not. In Daredevil's opening the imagery alone shows the state of Hell's Kitchen and how Daredevil came about because of it.

The first image of the opening symbolizes how the idea of justice has been hurt. The statue may seem like it is being pored on, but it's not. Blood is just flowing over it. In the show most of the police force are in the pockets of the villain. Because of that underhandedness, justice has been hurt. It now bleeds out. While normally the statue is shown as white, here the blood has painted it red showing how corrupted it is now. Or how it has always been corrupted. The image is not a white statue bleeding. The image is of nothing while blood flows down taking shape as the statue. Justice in reality is corrupted. That is why the statue is never shown as white. It never was to begin with.

One of the cases Matt and Foggy work on is paralleled in the opening. The case in question is when they try to help an old lady stay in her home. The Kingpin wants to destroy the building and replace it with something for (presumably) the Hand. The old lady dies because of it and the Kingpin gets his building. This new building has been made with that women's blood. Once again the blood does not come from the outside, but from the inside. From the people who lived their. Their pain and death has let this 'better' structure come about.

Despite the different shapes that the blood has shown, their has been a big similarity between them. The blood flows down. All of that pain and suffering flows down to the streets. Other people's pain and suffering have finished shaping the land and has now began to shape something new. It's a person. The blood that flows over him, for the first time, does not come from inside. It came from above where all the blood from the building trickled down from. As the blood flows it creates something new. The city's pain creates something to protect it. Daredevil was created because of other's suffering. He was created because the city needed someone and Daredevil took on that challenge.