Who Is The Protagonist In Sniffer

Sniffer is a short film about a man, who lives in a world where humans wear metal boots to weigh them down because they don’t react to gravity. The protagonist lives a monotonous life, arising from his sleep every morning to commute to work in a overcrowded bus, where his job entails testing deodorants by sniffing the armpits of various individuals, which is shown to be overweight. However, the ending of the film exhibit him realizing how dreary his life is, which triggered him unfastening his boots and liberating himself from the tedious life he once lived.
The film contains a few people, but there is truly only two characters that have been developed in the film; that is the protagonist and his wife. Scene one introduces a man and a women, they are presumed to be married as husband and wife. The protagonist nor his wife does not speak a word to each other, nor do they display any form of affection or emotion towards each
This type of narrative is displayed through how the film started and end with the protagonist. The film begins with the protagonist floating in the ceiling by which he must have accidentally unfasten himself from his bed, as the belt is used to hold him down because he does not react to gravity. The protagonist wife overhear a sound and realizes her husband was floating in the ceiling, she eventually arise from the bed, strapped on her boots, and relieved him from the ceiling and hook him down to his bed. Fast forward to the very end of the film, the protagonist is seen standing in front of a glass window staring at his wife, he then began unfastening his metal boots, and eventually begin to float away. The starting and the ending of the film both show the protagonist floating away, and at both scenes his wife was present. The difference between the two is that the beginning of the film the protagonist wife was able to help him, but at the ending all she could do was to watch him float