Black and white? That's precisely why Hollywood embraced it. If you ever watch the Nanny show, with Jo Frost, you'll see her technique involves creating rigor, schedules, certainty, sameness for little children. And they tend to respond well to such conformity. Well Hollywood is no different. They consistently promote the worst sort of vice. And they did not applaud THIS film because they thought it was a conservative non-conformist treatise. They embraced it as comfortably more of the same in a promotion, no doubt similar to that of Goebbels so long ago, for 'mercy' killing; which is uncharitable and not merciful. The characters who object in the film have no basis for it, or seem petulant. The 'logic' of the situation demands 'mercy', supposed mercy, as in 'mercy' killing. And the anti-hero dutifully does the anti-moral thing, seen as 'morality', and the villian is justified for having done the 'right thing' - i.e. he kills, he poisons, and then he runs away and dies or whatever as signified by the exterior shot of the 'pie-diner'. That's why the guy who originally wrote that column suggesting parallels to Goebbels' film seems to have really gotten the point of all this.