Aaron McLellan--Unleashed

The movie “Unleashed” with Jet Li is about a man named Danny (Li) who was trained from a boy by a mob boss to be a hit man.  But he is no ordinary hit man.  He has been trained to be like a dog and he is treated like one.  He wears a collar that when is taken off, he becomes lethal and beats anyone his master tells him to beat.  But Danny has been beaten and abused by his master just as bad as he has beaten his adversaries.  One day Danny meets a man named Sam.  Sam tells Danny “People are like pianos.  Sometimes they beaten down to hard and need to be retuned.”  Sam is a piano player and tuner who takes Danny in when Danny later gets hurt in a car accident.  Sam represents the transcendence that helps retune Danny’s life.  Danny turns from his old life and takes on a new life free from the collar and abuse of his old master.  Romans 6:16 says “Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey–whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?”  Danny was a slave to the one he obeyed.  When he obeyed his “Uncle Bart”, he lived a life of suffering and pain.  When he offered himself to goodness and righteousness, he lived a life of happiness and fulfillment.  In the end, Danny chose to live a life of righteousness with his new family.