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".
属实是文艺片了。无论是宿命论，还是那个性感惹火又爱裸露的小姨，都是主人公的经历吧，但愿他也能收获自己的真正的上帝之手。
并不喜欢导演最热门的年轻的教皇，但很喜欢导演这部“尴尬”的青春回忆电影。太私人、太细腻了。
因为突然失去父母而仿佛没有快乐的法比奥，不要崩溃。你有未来。
跟一个意大利姑娘一起看的，她说你离开欧洲之前一定要去那不勒斯。
一桩转会能化解家庭危机这种事，让人怦然心动又恍若隔世。“这座城市对你毫无启发吗？你有故事要讲吗？” 然而故事的最后还是说了拜拜。只能感慨索伦蒂诺毕竟没有上帝之手。
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。
也许是和自己的私人经历有许多相似之处，所以感受颇深。作为同样想用电影作为载体述说一切的我，请坚持下去。
一部有一点逝去的伤感、一些鲜亮的人物以及很多荷尔蒙的童年回忆，一部给那不勒斯、给八十年代、给表演艺术的热情赞歌。从笑到哭，两种情绪都把握得还挺好，温和不过火。更喜欢的还是里面的幽默感。当一直形象粗鄙、在家族中被取笑的老妇人在葬礼上突然念出了几句但丁的时候，我是很服气的。大荧幕上看这种超美的画质，于是进一步被种草了那不勒斯（以及Stromboli），虽然早就在要去的地方列表里了但还是可以提前一下……
Antonio Capuano与法比奥的那段对话，生动地阐释了什么叫做自我致敬。
总去拿过去的导演来比较索伦蒂诺太欺负人了
索伦蒂诺拍东西 如果少一点宗教性的超验意象 好像就失去那种浑然天成感了（甚至有元素堆砌之嫌） 这就是他和费里尼的差距吧
只有一瞬间是费里尼，余下仍是索伦蒂诺
前半部好难看进去，从“上帝之手”发生之后整部电影就突然变了一个气质。那段导演和法托比黄昏下的争论实在是太妙了。狂欢下的孤独，关于痛苦，我只服费里尼和索伦蒂诺。“你到底有没有故事”后劲十足。
虽说视听风格确实像费里尼，但索伦蒂诺始终有他自己的影像议题，超验性的宗教内容在费里尼那并非必须，但在索伦蒂诺这是构成性元素，而且在这部极度个人化的电影里他还对此做了某种历史解释。
那不勒斯的魔幻一度以为是南美….整部男孩的成长有点《天堂电影院》的意味…只是天堂让不要回来，本片让不要离开…….零散的记忆隐喻稍微让观影障碍…氛围感以为是一部轻松的电影…悲伤的转折并不能共情，后半部分抽象又哲学…..（可能是我太零散的观影过程了….）
像是谁记忆中无数片段的总和，太过私人化，碎片化，欣赏不来，也不知道在讲什么，想表达什么。
3.5前半部分总是会有些许的出离、夸张、诗意以及魔幻，笼上纱般的微妙。后半部分却来的真切，痛与哀总是令人清醒的。更喜欢前半部分那种微妙，或许多年之后索伦蒂诺对于后半部分的处理会更释怀吧。
而且你一个意大利足球迷拍出来这东西：“马拉多纳”搁那儿练任意球 那门将捉急的扑救弹跳力都不提了 门将站位是往哪站呢？糊弄谁呢草泥马！傻逼
Alex来自naples，我却从没有体会过他的童年，在这个嘈杂喧闹的城市里，成长悄无声息的发生着
8.5 那不勒斯的夏天，海浪声口哨声两百码快船的声音。关于生死、原欲、友情、电影。父母去世前还以为两人是在沙发上打盹，这场戏和后面的医院片段写得太好了。
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