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".
7.7 喜欢前三分之二的部分。这部片子把所有糟糕事情发生后最好的结果美化了出来。如果老爸出轨回家后可能爸妈会一氧化碳中毒死掉，多好的结果，可惜不在国内，不然遗产可以够他拍一部电影了。PS：希望到了爵士夫人的年纪，还能用肉体让别人看到希望。
保罗·索伦蒂诺《上帝之手》2021
我永远爱索导。他永远obsessed with maradona
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。
原来上帝之手是马拉多纳！要不是他去年过世看了几篇讣告，我更加摸不着头脑了。由于年代、那不勒斯和足球都离我太遥远，以致难以共鸣。对那不勒斯停留在60年代的那不勒斯四部曲里。于是电影里的家装如此现代大出意料。尤其很多灯，还能在tb看到仿品，真品中古店也不少，是大胆色+金属色的。由于猜到了男主父母一氧化碳中毒了，导致最大的转折我也没啥起伏。而兄弟面对父母突然离世，一个觉得再也无法不悲伤，一个想要逃避悲伤，选择形式上的快乐。倒是邻居男爵夫人帮忙破除有些意料外，梳头发梳到**。让他想象他喜欢的人，帮他继往开来。剧中人被挂着倒立的那个地方，空间感竟然有点浦江镇珠宝城。怀疑是导演自传，男主说要去拍电影。想到《请你你的名字呼唤我》和《西西里岛》。这种情境的无法介入，大概就跟有人说《爱情神话》看不下去一样吧。
欲望是船
那不勒斯诚然有许多故事
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。
歡喜货车与葬礼。I vitelloni在前 La Dolce Vita在后；Great Beauty在前 hand of god在后。听惯了与费里尼的对比。索伦蒂诺终究不是悲观的人，所有的伤感的人都有出路。自传不及Roma动人，却更饱满。同时期的Souvenir，Pain&Glory，电影对自己的不断回想怀念 是电影人无话可说了吗？意象照以往少了 但索拍家庭都像史诗 想及赫尔佐格拍史诗像家庭录影。
上帝之x系列哈哈哈哈 好羡慕意大利人哦 在庭院绿荫下吃东西聊天 在海上小船里晒太阳 原来意大利语那个骂人的词发音和西语的puta好像啊
悲剧里的荒诞更显悲凉，大概导演想说的是，他“在这片荒谬和混沌中，不知觉就这么长大了，也即将逝去了”。
平淡生活。就是有点太~ ~ 平 ~ ~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
后半段表达偏弱了，比较松散，但前半段感觉极好
那个夏天，我告别了童真
你年轻，你疯，你是自由的，你要说出来，仿佛是神谕，无处不在的迭戈，无处不在的费里尼。他用眼睛观察一切。好电影让人遗忘现实。
真好看，镜头里的人景物都美不胜收，渐渐觉得有时候看电影不一定是在追求看懂，感受它本身就足够了，想在影院再看一次
20220122le。导演个人印记强烈的电影，马拉多纳，费里尼，时代只是点缀，不过通篇摸不到重点，倒是轻松随意，留不下什么印象。3.5
些许闪光，后半段有点飘，但整体还挺讨喜。等网飞上线可可以再重温下些许片段。
那不勒斯 费里尼 马拉多纳 前半段杂耍式回忆 后半段是真的压抑
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