I bawled like a baby during his final scene when I watched it the first time.
Upon multiple viewings....well, I still bawl like a baby each time. Honestly, the part that really, really hurts now is when they are all dying on the rooftop and Teddy is already frozen on the ground, and the only thing still human about him is his face...and his eyes are filled with tears as he is staring at the night sky. I felt that I could see Robin and his pain in that scene and that tore my heart out.
I may be reading to far into the final scene now that I've seen in a few times and because I am viewing it through the lens of Robin's death, but the whole "Smile, my boy. It's sunrise" gutted me pretty badly too when I realized that Larry doesn't see Teddy turn back into wax. He turns away to see the sun rise, and when Larry's attention is elsewhere Teddy finally becomes 100 percent wax again. I can't help but see that transition as a parallel to Robin's life and death. He was slipping away and gone before anyone could notice :'(
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