There is a timeless nature to violence. The same goes for sorrow and vengeance. According to some, violence started with Cain and Able. Those of higher thought realize human nature is violent, the remittance of the panicked reptilian brain we once had, lashing out. Violence is typically a manifestation of perverse sense of self preservation. Killing animals for food and skins, killing other humans in anger and in jest. Titus is a journey into the timeless nature of violence, so the anachronistically nature of sets and costumes makes perfect sense.
The sets of totalitarian Rome set the scene for the gore and bloodshed sure to follow. The main set piece of the Federal Building constructed during Fascist Italy conveys both the modern and archaic. The scenes shot in the Colosseum show the fortitude of violence, the substantially of the cycle of anger and pain and vengeance. The anachronistic nature of violence allows telephone poles and ancient Roman roads to play in the same scene, to show the timeless nature.
Costuming and the clothing, the use of metallic togas and leather pants and terry robes. Entire styles fused together, all to show the violence, the carnal nature of lust, of power.
The nature of violence, of rape and revenge, that it never ends till most of the players are dead, that it lives though millenniums of evolution, becoming more closeted, more controlled, but still there, in things like the WWE, campus and date rape and of course the death penalty.
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