Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
应该是生活过意大利的人才会欣赏这部电影，否则太琐碎。
前半段 尤其是花园那场戏 感觉拍出了等待戈多 后面一直到男主父母死之前 故事的节奏 内容 都属于今年难得一见的好片 然而后半段却好像掉进了一个罐子里 因为是玻璃的器皿 所以怎么也爬不出去 很闷 很无助 不知道究竟想要说些什么 比如 上帝之手 它存在吗？
关于保罗索伦蒂诺，就是你永远都猜不到他的下一步，是惊喜还是惊奇，他似乎有着源源不断的创意，把深刻和美学融合在一起。
有人欢呼 有人哀叹
对我来说，部分情节这部《上帝之手》中总有一种《西西里的美丽传说》和《晚娘》的感觉。
属于索伦蒂诺的私人影片，回忆，是这两个小时的全部意义。“我想过一种想象的生活”，这也是我看电影的原因。
很一般。那不勒斯往事，看不出什么章法，马拉多纳这个阵眼算是用废了。唯一的亮点就是Patrizia小姨的大莱莱。
以为韦斯·安德森的对称构图已经够抚慰我心了，没想到又经历一波来自索伦蒂诺的均衡美学洗礼，是献给那不勒斯和马拉多纳的一曲恋歌，同时题献给费里尼和《美国往事》。费里尼说，电影啊也没什么用，但它能分散注意力。——从什么里分散呢？现实啊。索伦蒂诺老师还告诉我们，创作是你有话要说，仅仅痛苦还不够，你是孤独的？这可不是什么独一无二的事情。
兜兜转转之后，索伦蒂诺这一次又回到了意大利，回到了自己的家乡那不勒斯，拍出了一部非常私人的《上帝之手》。这可能是他成名以来所有作品中视觉语言最克制的一部，很多个人风格强烈的标志都变得不那么明显。这一次索伦蒂诺更多的回归到了故事本身，以那不勒斯的意大利南部风貌为语境，呈现出了一个少年孤独、平淡却又充满了成年人世界的诱惑和危险的成长经历。
家长里短要如何拍出戏剧冲突
迷人的少年成长史，与足球、上帝之手结合得很巧妙。人生纵使支离破碎，还是有向往、有未来的。意大利真好看。
有很多地方热泪盈眶 克制与狂欢共生 过去与现在并行 记忆与成长相伴 男主的身体内仿佛住进了导演的灵魂和双眼 不只是经历 更是在跟随着主角漫步于空旷的穹顶之下和海岸边（以及空灵似主观的移动镜头 ）与家乡和遇见的人们对话 简短而怀旧的小提琴声马上将影片中的现实拉回记忆 带来的多样的视角感官太棒了 就像片尾来到 淡然地经过庆祝意甲夺冠的人群和队伍 马拉多纳已经成为青春的一个注脚 却更是导演生命里无法消逝的一个原点。主角有两回戴上耳机 但导演并没有让我们知道他在听什么 因为他的听觉属于过去 也属于未来 唯独不属于影片当下的时刻 有些时候可能必须要逃避 才能真正面对 摄影造型和声音都太精致了
一家三口骑着小摩托，马拉多纳，
翻来覆去就是男孩青春期的那些事：从家庭关系中理解爱，从熟悉的女性中性启蒙，从追逐的偶像中理解梦想，就这些内容，看得人发困。
这才是正确的导演私人回忆录的打开方式，甩隔壁的贝尔法斯特好几条街。首先你得有个好故事，其次你长大的地方景色得好，起码得有山有水，谁想看北爱尔兰那几条破街道？最后，你得是索伦蒂诺逼逼才有人愿意看。拍不好电影，因为你不是那不勒斯人
鲜明索伦蒂诺风，索伦蒂诺版《罗马》，然而青年躁动和时代的那不勒斯结合略散。
（相较于本片的导演的私人化回忆和纪念来说，要比同类型同含义的《贝尔法斯特》强出两三倍，真诚真的是利器…
8分，很私人但也很吸引人的故事，摄影和构图非常漂亮，表演也是一大亮点
关于私人影像和记忆，索伦蒂诺拍出来平淡且缺乏共鸣。
最喜欢的一场戏是母亲接到情妇电话后的歇斯底里。男孩的腿在发颤，无法抑止。只有这时，电影中夸张的情感恰到好处地成为一种可信。
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