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".
关于私人影像和记忆，索伦蒂诺拍出来平淡且缺乏共鸣。
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。
又是一部那不勒斯风物诗，大海，阳光，足球，少年，荷尔蒙……男主简直就是甜茶翻版
碎片化的叙事需要十足的耐心，但看完知道了是导演的自传，但还是没明白到底要表达什么，可能是我对那段历史不太了解。服装造型以及人物外形都太像甜茶了
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。
3.5，话说第一次再怎么随便…给邻居奶奶有点说不过去吧
像导演的自叙。我们一同见证过欢乐兴奋，也在曲终人散时悲愤哀伤，但那不勒斯永远是我们的根。后半段男主故人风景离别的场面，有那么点那不勒斯《山河故人》的感觉。
碎片化的叙事需要十足的耐心，但看完知道了是导演的自传，但还是没明白到底要表达什么，可能是我对那段历史不太了解。服装造型以及人物外形都太像甜茶了
对意大利电影了解甚少，看不出什么大名堂，应该是导演半自传片吧。喜欢此片家庭戏部分，小姨的段落，有一首配乐很好听，其他就不是我的菜了
乡愁类电影的创作，应该是个人化的。但电影创作的初衷或者说任务是被人观赏，与观众共情是创作者的“责任”。一味铺陈过度私人化的、对他人而言大多无法触碰与理解的记忆碎片，纵然有那不勒斯的美景相称，也如隔靴搔痒，难以直击灵魂。
这几年导演拍私人电影都好好啊，我可太喜欢了。
3.5，怎么又是爱上小姨？摄影值得四星，意大利每个城市都值得细逛感受。有时羡慕导演这个角色，可以用影像永久记录自己的私人记忆，还让全世界观众买单。
一场言真意切的自我治愈系创作，年代回望的切身感甚至唤起我回忆里某种遥远的朴素情感。直接的亲缘离散，想象的共同体终究遥远，退回自我最真实的欲望和情感，逃避也许可耻但有用。
诗是苦难和甜蜜合力熬成的，但不是所有的苦难和甜蜜都能熬成诗——要看它落在了谁的手里。《上帝之手》是诗，也是一个少年保罗·索伦蒂诺走向未来导演保罗·索伦蒂诺的论据。在上世纪八十年的那不勒斯，热爱马拉多纳，拥有一个多姿多彩，也多烦多恼的家庭的少年法比托，目睹自己生活中夕阳最耀眼的一刻，又试图重新寻找自己的灿烂的日出。这部自传式电影最大的魅力在于观影中它的走向是如此扑朔迷离，像完全信笔由之，一个个充满魅力的人构成这兴趣盎然且苦恼丛生的命运画卷。导演终于导出了自己的《阿玛珂德》（费里尼）、《诗无尽头》（佐杜洛夫斯基）、《痛苦与荣耀》（阿莫多瓦）、《童年往事》（侯孝贤）、《罗马》（阿方索）。另有一个奇妙的体验足堪分享：观影中我不曾感到任何镜头的重量，可回想时，它们每一个都带给我无与伦比的心潮起伏。
像导演的自叙。我们一同见证过欢乐兴奋，也在曲终人散时悲愤哀伤，但那不勒斯永远是我们的根。后半段男主故人风景离别的场面，有那么点那不勒斯《山河故人》的感觉。
有些灵光时刻有些喜欢，无费里尼背书基础，一场他人的乡愁。
上帝之手并非万能之手， 通过难以言喻的悲伤，一位少年最终成为一名男人
如此私人的青春追忆，命运与家庭、足球与电影、爱与失去，在欢乐与悲剧相互交织中，命运的齿轮已然开始转动。
属于索伦蒂诺的私人故事，他已经找到了激情和说出自己故事的勇气，于我并无什么情感共鸣，只是爱上了那片蓝色的海。
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