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".
都说是意外,我却看出了双双殉情的影子。有外遇私生子的父亲以他自己的方式爱着妻儿,原来《年轻气盛》中老音乐家故事出自于此。妈妈"精湛"的耍橙子技艺背后,隐藏的是如许伤痛。
男孩变成男人，可能是一瞬间，可能是一辈子。
一部让人想到很多经典电影的影片，很多让人难忘的细节与镜头，有些杂乱、随意、无序，但印象深刻。像小姨的裸体和笑容、老太太的诱惑、小修士的神秘等等。影片的导演风格非常鲜明，演员的表演也相当自然，毫不扭捏做作，意大利的风景色彩也十分鲜明、美丽、有味。有时觉得，用一部电影描写少年的成长远远不够。
——要有故事可讲
未来会怎么样，我不知道。
在威尼斯的Airbnb时，一个意大利女生得知我来参加威尼斯影展，说她也很想看一部电影，但是没有买到票，那便是《上帝之手》，她试图和我描述索伦蒂诺以前的电影带给她的情绪，但碍于语言没有太成功。我此前并非索伦蒂诺的粉丝，但这一次彻底被他征服，这是今年唯一一部甫一结束就让我紧接着想再看一遍的电影,那是一种我无法用只言片语形容的情绪。我曾肤浅地以为索伦蒂诺只会讲述那件大家都知道的往事，但他把它拓展成了一场精神的奥德赛，一次在梦境与现实边界上的游走。Ps：他上哪找的这么俊俏的少年还有那美艳不输佩内洛普·克鲁兹的女人啊！
「别去罗马了，这座城市的故事还不够多吗？你有故事想要讲吗？」
（豆瓣真空期补标9月末-12月）索伦蒂诺的青年自传。
这个片名真好，故乡与成长，还有费里尼和马拉多纳。。每个镜头都想感叹那不勒斯的美，小男主好像小凯。。
关于家庭生活、懵懂的性、足球痴迷和电影梦想，男孩从中体验一切，并做出选择，看起来很私人，但整体气质还是偏向大众的。那不勒斯的水啊，承载了太多太多的情感，每每看到有人在那水里游泳的时候，就感觉生命也不过如此了。平铺直叙，尽量克制内敛，偶有出其不意的时刻，意大利民风淳朴，也锻造了影片与众不同的面貌，可远观，却不可近看，整体感受差了点。
导演的自传体电影中，我最喜欢的是阿莫多瓦的《痛苦与荣耀》，其次就是这部《上帝之手》。和以往索伦蒂诺那种华丽的高度形式化的拍摄方式不同，这次他褪去了所有缥缈浮夸的修饰辞藻，戏谑的姿态转而化为了平易近人的温柔。索伦蒂诺回顾了他的少年时代，关于故乡那不勒斯、父母家庭、性启蒙、还有马拉多纳的巅峰时刻。任何时候当一个创作者愿意毫无掩饰的表露自己内心深处最柔软、最脆弱的那一面，并一层层剥开给观众看，这都是令人敬佩的。或许到了某一个年龄，这些大导演都以某种方式开始回顾自己的一生，坦诚的面对自己。
有这时间我不如把碗洗了。不是很懂你们文艺片。一星给画面。
@ 巴黎剧院 准备重看 很不一样的索伦蒂诺，难得的沉着和克制，赋予这个题材足够的厚度，很像费里尼 @ moma 重看 Try it 很认真的对待电影，生活的痛苦和过去的自己和解，文学、绘画、音乐，所有构成我们生命和电影的东西都应该得到这样的重视
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
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关于家庭生活、懵懂的性、足球痴迷和电影梦想，男孩从中体验一切，并做出选择，看起来很私人，但整体气质还是偏向大众的。那不勒斯的水啊，承载了太多太多的情感，每每看到有人在那水里游泳的时候，就感觉生命也不过如此了。平铺直叙，尽量克制内敛，偶有出其不意的时刻，意大利民风淳朴，也锻造了影片与众不同的面貌，可远观，却不可近看，整体感受差了点。
毕竟不是每个人都能当导演
威尼斯电影节、奥斯卡。保罗瓦伦蒂诺导演的作品，作为一部导演自传电影，以此作为了解导演青年时期的契机应该也不错。标题取自足球巨星马拉多纳“踢”出的上帝之手，虽然对足球不感兴趣，但能看出来此片名表达了导演对马拉多纳的喜爱，还因此救了导演一命，最后导演不再怀念过往，离开那不勒斯，借着上帝之手的寓意走上了拍电影的道路。男主的性启蒙和《西西里的美丽传说》很像，果然风情的意大利一脉相承，男主破处竟然是由老男爵夫人来完成，还说是在他失去双亲后给他带来希望，看到这段真不知如何表达我的惊叹。又被科普到导演在电影里致敬了很多处费里尼的《阿玛柯德》，有空可以结合看看。好喜欢意大利那不勒斯这样的海边城市。最后，在近期看过的一大堆压抑的影片中，终于看到了一部让我眼前一亮的作品，这也是我给五星的原因。电影还是很美好的！
上世纪八十年代的那不勒斯，意大利少年的成长史，吵吵闹闹各怀心事的大家族，孤孤单单在憧憬足球和女人中长大的青春期。索伦蒂诺这次足够真诚。第一幕堵车穿越《八部半》。
马拉多纳的手，那不勒斯的夜，小男孩的忧伤......
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