Why Do Audiences Associate Black-And-White Photography and Cinematography with a Stronger

Why do audiences associate black-and-white photography and cinematography with a stronger sense of unidealized realism than that provided by color film stock?

A) Color images are distracting.
B) The plots of black-and-white films are more realistic.
C) The reason is the historical use of black-and-white images for documentaries and newspaper photographs.
D) Black-and-white images offer ambiguous moral positions for characters.
E) Color films are more closely associated with fantasy.