The Hand of God: Ending Explained Why Does Fabietto Leaves Naples? È Stata La Mano Di Dio

The Hand of God aka È Stata La Mano Di Dio is an adolescence story by its director Paolo Sorrentino, who grew up in Maradona’s Naples and suddenly forced to become an adult due to a dramatic event. 20 years after his debut as a director, Paolo Sorrentino has decided to tell his personal story of man, son and director – by creating a film that also works as a tribute to Naples in the 1980s and adolescence destined to give way to adulthood.

The Italian candidate in the race for Best International Film at the 2022 Oscars has a cyclical trend. After the climax of the second half of the film, the film closes by resuming some Neapolitan elements of the opening. In the final sequences of the film produced by Netflix and winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival we discover the fate of Fabietto (the alter ego of Paolo Sorrentino), while the director closes the film with a double tribute to his city, both musical be visual.

The Hand of God Ending Explained: Why Does Fabietto Leaves Naples?

After the sudden death of his parents, Fabietto finds himself at a critical moment in his life. His childhood must end abruptly and he will have to make decisions in a few weeks that will change his life forever. The money is scarce and the brother is not willing to exercise that perseverance that he so admired in Maradona, so Fabio will find himself only chasing his cinematic dream, of which, however, he still does not clearly perceive the contours.

The Baroness will take care of initiating sex Fabietto, guiding him in his first sexual intercourse. When the woman asks Fabietto to think of a girl he loves and to say her name, he thinks of Aunt Patrizia. His first love will always remain his muse, even if we later discover that the woman has ended up in a psychiatric hospital, unable to get out of the vortex of illusions and hallucinations that the loss of the long-awaited child has entailed.

Fabietto will also be helped by director Antonio Capuano (who even in reality wanted him as an assistant and screenwriter before his directorial debut). In a long nightly chat of confrontation, the director manages to make Fabietto understand what he has to say to the world with his cinema: the answer is anger for not having seen the bodies of his dead parents, poisoned by the carbon monoxide of a stove in the second house.

After a short vacation in Stromboli with his brother and an interview with his smuggler friend who ended up in prison, Fabietto decides to take his destiny in hand and attempt the path of cinema. Contrary to what was suggested to him by Capuano, he did not stay in Naples, but left for Rome.

The Meaning Of The Final Scene Of The Hand of God

Fabietto gets on a regional train departing from the Naples season to Rome. He puts the headphones on his Walkman, starts listening to the music. At a certain point out of the window he sees a hooded figure: he is the baby munaciello of the Neapolitan tradition, who had appeared at the beginning of the film to his aunt Patrizia. The figure seems to be beckoning to Fabietto, who is watching her intently.

It is a sort of farewell from Naples to one of his sons, but also an allusion to how lucky Fabietto’s expedition will be. The munaciello will fulfill your professional wish. The song by Pino Daniele Napule continues on the credits another tribute by Sorrentino to one of the iconic artistic figures of the city.